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2026 Football Roster

Eli MacNeal

  • Position Quarterback
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 185
  • Class Freshman
  • Hometown Carlsbad, Calif.
  • Highschool Carlsbad High School

Biography

PRIOR TO CORNELL
San Diego Player of the Year in 2025 ... First Team All-League and All-CIF as a senior ... an Offensive Player of the Year nominee ... ranked No. 1 in the state of California in passing percentage at 79.1% ... First Team All-League as a junior and a California Underclassmen Watch List selection in 2024 ... a four-year letterwinner at quarterback who earned MVP honors at three levels (freshman in 2022, junior varsity in 2023 and varsity in 2025) ... helped Carlsbad High School to three league championships (2023, 2024, 2026) and two CIF Open Division runner-up finishes (2023, 2025) ... a three-year Associated Student Body officer, Honor Roll honoree and National Honor Society member ... founder and president of Club Game On and an active member of the Mitchell Thorp Foundation ... also a basketball letterwinner and MVP in 2023.
 
PERSONAL
Son of Kelly and Thaddeus MacNeal ... mother attended UCLA and father attended Cal State Fullerton ... has a brother, Marcus, who plays football at UCLA, and a sister, Abigail, who attended Falmouth University in England ... from Carlsbad, California ... born in Long Beach, California ... career objective is finance ... enrolled in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
 

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