He competed for the Cornell Big Red wrestling team under coach Rob Koll.

As a wrestler he won three Hawaii state high school championships and the 2001 Junior National titles in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

[2] Lee became the first native born Hawaiian to win an NCAA Division I wrestling title.

He came back from injury to win the Dave Schultz Memorial International in February 2007 with the New York Athletic Club.

[1] A further injury at the Independence Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan the following month led Lee to retire from wrestling.