Coach Schafer ’86 imparts hockey-infused wisdom in ‘Last Lecture’
By Tom Fleischman, Cornell Chronicle
Sullivan Mack ’25 had heard it all before.
The third-leading scorer on this year’s Cornell men’s hockey team, Mack has absorbed four years of inspirational, passionate, occasionally profane and always brutally honest locker-room talks from Mike Schafer ’86, the soon-to-be-retired Jay R. Bloom ’77 Head Coach of Men’s Hockey.
So when fellow members of a senior honor society asked Mack if he thought Schafer would be up for delivering the latest installment in Cornell’s “Last Lecture” series, he gave it a shot.