Athletics
- Drafted second overall by the MLL’s Denver Outlaws
- Cornell’s first-ever Tewaaraton Trophy Winner (2009)
- 2009 USILA Lt. Raymond Enners Award Winner – Outstanding DI Player
- 2009 USILA Lt. j.g. Donald MacLaughlin Jr. Award Winner – Outstanding DI Midfielder.
- Winner of the 2009 Lowe’s Senior Class Award
- Winner of the Dianne Geppi-Aikens Award for outstanding community service.
- Is one of only three Cornell men’s lacrosse players to be named All-American four times (first-team – 2007, 2008, 2009; second-team – 2006)
- The first-ever Ivy League men’s lacrosse player to be a four-time first-team All-Ivy selection
- An unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection for his final three seasons
- Cornell’s first-ever Tewaaraton Trophy finalist (2007, 2009)
- Named the winner of the Cornell Athletic Department’s Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award
- One of only four players ever to be a Tewaaraton Trophy finalist as a sophomore
- Was a solo captain of the 2009 squad, marking just the second time since 1966 that the Big Red has had a single captain of the men’s lacrosse team
- Has more career points (141) than any midfielder in the history of the Cornell program
- Was named to the US National Team.
- A semifinalist for the 2009 Coach Wooden Citizen Cup
- 2008 USILA National Player of the Year Finalist
- The 2008 Marty Glickman Jewish Scholar Athlete of the Year
- Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2006
Community
- Save the Day – For the past three years, Seibald has taken the lead in a program called “Save the Day,” serving as co-coordinator both last year and again this year. The program is a joint effort between the Cornell men’s lacrosse team and the Dream Factory of Central, N.Y., to raise money to grant the wishes of chronically and critically ill children. In large part due to Seibald’s efforts, what began in 2004 as a simple fundraising campaign in which members of the Big Red solicited contributions from the community for every save made by a Cornell goalie, has evolved into a year-round service project which includes running a blood drive for the American Red Cross, as well as the Save the Day 3 vs. 3 Youth Lacrosse Tournament.
- The 21 Run – Seibald has also been active in the planning of the 21 Run for the past three years and this year served as the publicity chair. The event, which honors the late Mario St. George Boiardi, who wore the No. 21 as captain of the Cornell men’s lacrosse team, raises money each year for the Family Reading Partnership of Ithaca as it works towards its mission to promote children’s literacy in the Ithaca community.
- Big Red Readers – On a more intimate level, Seibald is heavily involved with Big Red Readers, a program which promotes literacy by bringing Cornell athletes into one of the local elementary schools to read to the students for an hour. He typically takes part in Big Red Readers at least once every other week, but will go every week if his schedule allows.
- Daffodil Days – As a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Seibald takes part in numerous community service projects, including the fraternity’s largest fundraiser – Daffodil Days, a program that raises a significant amount of money for the American Cancer Society. Last spring, ATO raised approximately $15,000.
- Sphinx Head Honor Society – Seibald is a member of the Sphinx Head Honor Society, a group that recognizes members of the Cornell senior class who have given their time and passion to the university during their undergraduate years. It is the university's oldest secret senior honor society, and its goal is to quietly uplift the Cornell community through volunteerism. The group does a number of volunteer projects throughout the year, typically doing at least one project each month.
Clutch Performances
- Of Max Seibald’s 88 career goals, 45 (.511 percent) have come during meaningful stretches of a games. Below is a breakdown of the circumstances in which his goals were scored.
Seibald’s Career Goals Have ….
Tied a game 10 times.
Put Cornell up by one-goal 12 times.
Put Cornell up by two goals 12 times.
Have brought Cornell to within one-goal while trailing six times.
Have brought Cornell to within two goals while trailing once.
Sent a game into overtime twice.
Won a game in the final minute twice.
Been scored in the final 60 seconds of a quarter nine times.
Been scored in the final 10 seconds of a quarter four times.
- Of Max Seibald’s 49 career assists, 20 (.408 percent) have come during meaningful stretches of a games. Below is a breakdown of the circumstances in which his assists were registered.
Seibald’s Career Assists Have ….
Tied a game six times.
Put Cornell up by one-goal nine times.
Put Cornell up by two goals twice.
Have brought Cornell to within one-goal while trailing twice.
Won a game once.
Been scored in the final 60 seconds of a quarter twice.
Been scored in the final 10 seconds of a quarter once.
What They’re Saying About Seibald
"He's the best midfielder in the country by a long shot. He's 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds and runs a 4.2 (second) 40 (yard dash), so you've got a big problem on your hands. In a respectful, almost reverent way from a coach to a player on another team, although I don't like playing against him, I really admire what he does out there. It's a piece of work."
– Bill Tierney, Princeton Head Coach
"He's kind of like a Larry Csonka of an offensive player, where you try and tackle him and he hits you just as hard as you hit him, maybe harder, but he wants to make you pay. He can really run through a lot of defensemen. He can run through a lot of double teams." – John Desko, Syracuse Head Coach
“A lot of times, when you put your best guy on another team’s best player, you can take him out of the game, because he won’t want to challenge your guy. Not Max. He’ll go against anybody. He doesn’t care who it is.” – Tony Seaman, Towson Head Coach
“I thought his performance against us was one of the best individual performances I had ever seen in my 20-plus years in Division I. Every time I looked up, he was doing something to hurt us.” – Scott Marr, Albany Head Coach
At G.W. Hewlett: A two-time high school all-American, Seibald lettered three times at G.W. Hewlett HS. He led his team to a county championship in 2005, earning county player of the year honors in the process. Seibald was named to the Newsday All-Long Island Lacrosse Team and was a member of the 2004 Long Island Empire State team. He also lettered four times in soccer, three times in track and twice in football and was named G.W. Hewlett’s Male Athlete of the Year as a senior. Seibald was a member of the National Honor Society.
Personal: Maxwell Oren Seibald is the son of Jack and Stephanie Seibald and is enrolled in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He has two older sisters, one of which, Amanda, is a 2008 graduate of Cornell.
Max Seibald Career Statistics
