For Long Island Laxbeat's first interview, we figured that we would get started with the NCAA single season goal scoring record holder, Jon Reese, who scored an astounding 82 goals in Yale's run to the Final Four in 1990. The record still stands and probably will for quite a while. The 1990 season also saw Jon named 1st team All Ivy (for the 3rd time), Ivy League Player of the Year and the Lt. Don C. McLaughlin Jr. Memorial Award, which goes to the outstanding midfielder in Division I.Jon accomplished all of this after leading Yale to the football co-championship of the Ivy League in the fall of 1989 as a linebacker for the Eli. He was the football team captain and MVP, as well as the William Neely Mallory Award winner, which is given to Yale's top male athlete. Yale football coach, Carm Cozza wrote a full chapter about Jon in his memoirs. The chapter highlighted Jon playing against rival, Harvard just days after a brutal car accident left him with a split lip, broken jaw, missing four teeth and with a torn ligament in his arm.
