Jon Hess (lacrosse)

Jonathan A. Hess, known as Jon Hess, is a retired lacrosse attackman who played professional box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League and professional field lacrosse in Major League Lacrosse. He starred for the Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse team from 1995 through 1998, where he won the Jack Turnbull Award as the best NCAA attackman in 1997, was named Ivy League Player of the Year and was the most outstanding player of the 1997 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. Princeton won three national championships and four Ivy League championships in his time, and he still holds Princeton scoring records for points and assists. After college he was drafted 23rd overall by the New York Saints in 1998 and later played in Major League Lacrosse, where he led the league in assists. He is from Nyack, New York.