Ryan Mollett

In 1997, Mollett along with teammate John Glatzel led his Boys' Latin School of Maryland lacrosse team to an undefeated season and the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship.[1]

He served as co-captain of the 2001 team that won the 2001 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship.[2] Mollett won the 2001 Schmeisser Award as the best National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) lacrosse defenseman.[3] He was the 2001 Men's Ivy League Player of the Year.[4] He was a first team USILA All-American Team selection in 2001 and an honorable mention selection in 2000.[5][6] He was a first team All-Ivy League selection in 2000 and 2001, when he was Ivy League Player of the year.[7][8] During his four-year career, Princeton went undefeated in Ivy League Conference play with consecutive 6–0 records.[7][8][9][10] He was a 2001 USILA Scholar All-American.[3] As of 2014, Mollett was ranked 13th all-time at Princeton University as a lacrosse player.[11] He was a part of the 2001 Princeton team that allowed only 5.8 goals per game, lowest for a Princeton team in the modern era and lowest total for an Ivy League team (fourth all-time in Division I).[11]

In 2001, the Rochester Rattlers selected Mollett as the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft.[12] That same year, the New York Saints of the box lacrosse National Lacrosse League made Mollett the 22nd overall selection in the second round of the 2001 NLL draft.[13] He played for the Rattlers from 2001 to 2005.[14] Then, he became a member of the Chicago Machine, but never appeared in a game for them.[14] The Machine had drafted him in the 2006 MLL Expansion Draft, but he requested to be traded.[15] In March 2006, the Machine traded Mollett to the New Jersey Pride.[16] He played with the Pride from 2006 until 2007.[14] In 2003, he was selected as an All-Star.[17]

Mollett represented the United States at the 2002 World Lacrosse Championship where they won the championship.[18] After obtaining his M.B.A. in 2007, he went to work for BlackRock as Portfolio Manager and Senior Research Analyst.[19][20] Prior to joining BlackRock, he was a Trader at First New York Securities. Mr. Mollett began his career as a Consultant with Gemini Realty Advisors.[20] He is now a Senior Managing Director with GSO. Since joining GSO in 2011, Mr. Mollett has focused on distressed and special situation investing.[21] Mr. Mollett is on the Investment Committee and serves as a Portfolio Manager of GSO Community Development Capital Group as well as GSO Hedge Fund Strategies.[21]

Mollet obtained a M.B.A. from Yale School of Management in 2007. That year, his wedding to Glamour magazine fashion editor Samantha Noelle Bishopp was announced in The New York Times.[19] Mollett is the son of Dorothy Mollett and Richard C. Mollett of Taneytown, Maryland.[19]

• Mollett at the Major League Lacrosse