Originally from East Perth, Lee made his senior WAFL debut in 2007 at age 19.
By 2010, he was a regular senior player for the Royals, and he won the club's best and fairest award in 2011.
After sixty games for the club and at age 24, he was recruited to the Australian Football League by Essendon with a late selection in the 2012 Rookie Draft (No.
He was suspended for two years which, with backdating, ended in November 2016; as a result, he served approximately fourteen months of his suspension and missed the entire 2016 WAFL season.
[4] He retired from WAFL football after his suspension, finishing with 124 games for the Royals in his career.