[4] In 1968 at the Australian Rowing Championships he contested the national double sculls title in SUBC colours, placing second.
[12] Lee first made state selection for New South Wales in 1971 picked as the single sculls entrant to contest the President's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.
[17] Australia's men's eight for the 1976 Montreal Olympics was mostly that year's King's Cup winning New South Wales crew excepting Malcolm Shaw in the two seat and Brian Richardson at bow.
Lee stroked the crew which commenced their Olympic campaign with a win in the heat in a new world record time and they progressed to the final.
[18] However in the heat Shaw suffered a severe back injury (a collapsed vertebra) which put him out of the eight and replaced by Peter Shakespear, the reserve.
[18] For the 1978 World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro, the successful New South Wales King's Cup eight was again selected with Lee at stroke and composed of all Sydney men excepting Mosman's Gary Uebergang and Athol MacDonald.
[18] The Australian eight placed second in their heat, third in the repechage and in the final finished fourth being edged out for third by the host nation New Zealand.
[20] For the 1980 Moscow Olympics the new Australian Director of Coaching Reinhold Batschi utilised small boating racing criteria and selected an eight with rowers from three states.