Daniel R. Mackesey

Daniel R. Mackesey, born on July 14, 1954, is an American former lacrosse player who made his name as a goaltender at Cornell University. At Cornell he belonged to the Quill and Dagger society, graduated cum laude in 1977, and was an integral member of the university teams that won national championships in 1976 and 1977. He was a first team All-American in both of those seasons and an All-Ivy selection, and Cornell took the Ivy League title in each of his three varsity years. In 1978 he received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the nation's outstanding goaltender, and an NCAA Top Five Award. After college he played for the 1978 United States national team, which won a silver medal at the World Games. He has been inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame and was part of the 2006 class of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Away from the field he earned a law degree at the University of Virginia, spent nearly twenty years as a partner at the law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, and later became vice chairman of National Corporate Housing.