Jeff Cook (lacrosse)

Jeffrey "Jeff" Cook was an American college lacrosse attackman who starred for Johns Hopkins University from 1979 to 1982, a four-year stretch in which the Blue Jays compiled a 51-5 record. He prepped at St. Paul's School and McDonogh School in Maryland, helped Hopkins win Division I national titles in 1979 and 1980 and reached the championship game again in 1981 and 1982, losing both to North Carolina. His 219 career points rank sixth in program history. Cook was named National Collegiate Player of the Year in 1981 and National Collegiate Attackman of the Year in 1981 and 1982, and he was a three-time All-American. He played for the United States at the 1982 World Lacrosse Championship in Baltimore, which the Americans won, and was elected to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2006. He died on April 12, 2011.