Thrun posted 33 points (seven goals, 26 assists), a plus-20 rating and 14 penalty minutes in 33 games and helped Harvard University (ECAC) to the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship. He earned several end-of-season honors, including ECAC Defensive Defenseman of the Year, First Team All-ECAC and First Team All-Ivy. Thrun was named ECAC Defender of the Month in Nov. 2022, after picking up nine points (three goals, six assists) during the month.
The left-shot blueliner ranked fourth on the Crimson in points and second in assists, and amongst all ECAC players, he ranked seventh in assists and sixth in assists/game with 0.74.
Last season, Thrun was named a Second Team AHCA All-American, recording 32 points (seven goals and a team-high 25 assists) to go along with a plus-15 rating in 35 games. He finished eighth among all NCAA defensemen and tops among ECAC Hockey blueliners in scoring (.91 points per game) and earned First Team All-Ivy and Second Team All-ECAC Hockey honors.
In his rookie season of 2019-20, he was one of the top scoring rookie defensemen in all of college hockey, recording 21 points (three goals, 18 assists) in 31 games (6th, NCAA among first year blueliners) and he led Harvard with a plus-17 rating. He was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team and was an ECAC Hockey Best Defensive Defenseman finalist.
Thrun was a member of USA Hockey's gold medal-winning 2021 World Junior Championships team, notching one assist and a plus-six rating in seven games.
Prior to attending Harvard, the six-foot-two, 195-pound native of Southborough, Mass, played also extensively with USA Hockey, He was a member of the US NTDP U-18 Team during the 2018-19 season, posting 37 points (eight goals, 29 assists) in 64 games and won a bronze medal with the U.S. U18 team at the IIHF World U18 Championships in 2019. Additionally, he was selected for the 2018 All-American Prospects Game, won a gold medal at the 2017 U17 World Hockey Challenge, and was a 2018 Five Nations Champion and 2017 Four Nations Champion.
Thrun was originally selected by Anaheim in the 2019 NHL Draft (fourth round, 101st overall).
