Lake Forest College Hockey  News & Notes February 12, 1999  Contact:  Scott Rucker, SID  For Immediate Release  AARON VICKAR 1999 RECIPIENT OF PETER G. TAYLOR AWARD      Aaron Vickar, a senior goalie on the Forester hockey team, was presented the Peter G. Taylor Memorial Hockey Award on Friday.  Vickar, from St. Louis, MO, has had a distinguished hockey career, culminating with his final two years at Lake Forest.  Vickar set the record for lowest goals against average for the Omaha Lancers Junior A team in the USHA in 1994-95.  He was a member of the Division I National Championship team at the University of North Dakota in 1996-97 and was named to the All-Tournament Team for Team USA, which won the silver medal, at the 1997 Maccabi Games.  Vickar was selected the Most Valuable Player for the Foresters in 1997-98, while also receiving NCHA Honorable Mention All-Conference honors.  He has been named the Conference's Player of the Week in each of the last two seasons and was selected as the U.S. College Hockey Online Division III Defensive Player of the Week earlier this season.  A two-time NCHA All-Academic Team selection, Vickar is an honor roll student majoring in Communications.       The award stands as a permanent tribute to Peter G. Taylor (1951-1992), an All-American hockey player and 1973 graduate of Lake Forest College.  Family, friends, and former teammates established the Taylor Trophy as a tribute to Peter.  It is awarded annually to the player, selected by his teammates, whose outstanding talent, leadership, and love for the game best exemplifies the qualities of the player for whom it is named.  Taylor, a native of Lake Forest, began his hockey career for the Winter Club Bantam Team, which won the Illinois State Championship and competed in the national tournament in Lake Placid, NY.  A four-year player at the Berkshire School in Massachusetts, Taylor broke the school record in his junior year and captained the team as a senior.  Following a year at Boston University, he attended Lake Forest College, where he became the leading scorer in Forester history with 130 points and was named to the 1973 Western Division College All-America team.  He currently ranks seventh on the all-time points total list.  After earning his Bachelor's of Arts degree in Politics from LFC in 1973, Taylor turned his energies to the local community, teaching and coaching hockey for the Lake Forest Recreation Department.  Taylor was inducted into the Lake Forest College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998.