Ryan Mollett

Ryan Mollett (born November 3, 1978) is a finance executive and a retired lacrosse defenseman who played professional field lacrosse in Major League Lacrosse. At Princeton from 1998 through 2001 he was the best defenseman in the nation, a two-time All-American and the 2001 Ivy League Player of the Year, and he co-captained the 2001 team that won the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, winning the Schmeisser Award as the top defenseman. In 2001 the Rochester Rattlers made him the first player ever taken in the league's collegiate draft, and he played for Rochester until 2005 before joining the New Jersey Pride in 2006, and he was an All-Star in 2003. He was a member of Team USA at the 2002 World Lacrosse Championship, where the United States won the title. After earning an MBA at the Yale School of Management in 2007 he built a career in finance with BlackRock and then GSO.