Marty O'Neill

Marty O'Neill, born on June 6, 1964, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a former box lacrosse goaltender who later became a front office executive in the National Lacrosse League. He joined the Boston Blazers of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League, the forerunner of the NLL, in 1993 and played eight professional seasons: five with Boston, one with the Syracuse Smash and two with the Buffalo Bandits, retiring after the 2000 season. His Boston teammates voted him the Blazers' most valuable player for both 1994 and 1995. In senior amateur lacrosse he spent eleven seasons with the Victoria Shamrocks of the Western Lacrosse Association, one season with the Six Nations Chiefs and two with the Ladner Pioneers, and he won the Mann Cup with Victoria in 1997 and 1999 and with Six Nations in 1995. O'Neill became general manager of the Philadelphia Wings in 2001, then the first general manager of the Minnesota Swarm in 2004, and was named NLL General Manager of the Year in 2007 and 2008, the first person to win it twice. Since 1997 he has also worked on the design and production of box lacrosse equipment with Maximum Lacrosse.