Eamon James McEneaney (December 23, 1954 – September 11, 2001) was an

All-American The All-America designation is an annual honor bestowed on outstanding athletes in the United States who are considered to be among the best athletes in their respective sport. Individuals receiving this distinction are typically added to an Al ...

lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ...

player at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

from 1975 to 1977 and later an employee of

Cantor Fitzgerald Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is an American financial services firm that was founded in 1945. It specializes in institutional equity, fixed-income sales and trading, and serving the middle market with investment banking services, prime brokerage, an ...

who died during the

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Lacrosse career

McEneaney teamed with

Mike French Michael "Mike" G. French (born May 13, 1953) is a former three-time All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1974 to 1976, teaming with fellow lacrosse Hall of Fame members Eamon McEneaney, Dan Mackesey, Bill Marino, Tom Marino, ...

and Dan Mackesey to win the 1976 NCAA Championship, a key part of Cornell teams which won 29 straight games and two straight titles over two seasons. McEneaney was voted the outstanding player in the

1977 NCAA Championship The 1977 NCAA Division I basketball tournament involved 32 American schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the National Champion of Men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on Saturday, March 12, 1977, and ended with ...

game, while setting an NCAA tournament record with 25 points in three tournament games, with 11 goals and 14 assists, one of the great lacrosse finals performances. McEneaney represented the United States in the 1978

World Lacrosse Championship The World Lacrosse Men's Championship is the international men's field lacrosse championship organized by World Lacrosse that occurs every four years. The WLC began before any international lacrosse organization had been formed. It started as ...

s. McEneaney was inducted into the Cornell Sports Hall of Fame in 1982. He was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1992. McEneaney's jersey number (#10) was retired by Cornell University on April 27, 2002, in tribute to him.

Cornell University lacrosse statistics

Statistics per Cornell University media guides : ^''(a)'' 5th in NCAA career assists per game : ^''(b)'' 14th in NCAA career points per game

Writer and poet

Known for his athletic talents, McEneaney was also a poet and had desires to write a novel. His family, in partnership with the

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, published a posthumous collection of his poetry entitled ''A Bend in the Road''. In 2010, Eamon's widow Bonnie published ''Messages: Signs, Visits, and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11'', a collection of stories regarding people who have had

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experiences with friends and family members who died during the September 11 attacks.

Death and legacy

McEneaney was killed while working for

on the 105th floor of the North Tower. His remains were found just five days later. At the

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, McEneaney is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-57, alongside other employees of Cantor Fitzgerald killed in the

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