Position: defense

Shoots: right

Size: 5-10, 150

Age: 16 (08/19/89)

Years with Bobcats: 1

Years playing hockey: 13

Hometown: Kings Park, NY

Hometown Newspapers: The Smithtown News,

The Times of Smithtown, Smithtown Messenger

High School: Smithtown West (GPA: N/A)

SAT: N/A

Will graduate in: June 2007

Hobbies/interests: ?

Favorite hockey player: future Hall of Fame defenseman Brian Leetch

Best hockey advice ever gotten: "Never give up and stay with the game in good and bad," from former Islanders RW Patrick Flatley

Most influential person in my hockey career is: New Jersey Devils defenseman Vladimir Malakhov

Career highlights: Marcou was a member of Long Island and New York State championship teams at the Squirt and PeeWee levels in 2001 and 2002. The PeeWee team took a silver medal in the nationals in 2002, and his Suffolk PAL Junior B team was a national finalist in 2005. He made the New York State select teams as a 14-, 15- and 16-year-old, and also participated with the Islanders′ Quebec PeeWee team before that. He was the third star in the Bantam Junior B national finals and was named to the Elite Prospects Michigan team.

Ultimate goal: to play Division I hockey

College interests: UMass-Amherst, Merrimack, Providence, Vermont and other Division I Hockey East schools