| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 20 June 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Marsh Harbour, Bahamas | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [rc 1] | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005–2006 | Northern Oklahoma College | ||
| 2007 | Temple University | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2008 | Ocean City Barons | 3 | (0) |
| 2008 | Lancaster Inferno | ||
| 2009–2015 | Bears FC | ||
| International career | |||
| 2004–2011 | Bahamas | 6 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Mackenson "Mack" Altidor (born 20 June 1984) is a Bahamian former footballer who played as a centre-back. He made six appearances for the Bahamas national team. After playing in domestic leagues, he played college soccer at Northern Oklahoma College before transferring to Temple University in Philadelphia. [rc 2] After graduating, he played club football in the United States for the Ocean City Barons and the Lancaster Inferno before returning the Bahamas where he played for a local team. Altidor also represented his country at the junior and senior level playing in Olympic and World Cup qualifiers.
Altidor was born in Marsh Harbour, Abaco. He attended Abaco Central High School [rc 3] where he was captain of the basketball team. [rc 3] He only started playing football in 2002 when he was 18. [rc 4]
In 2005, he was one of six Bahamian footballers to receive scholarships to play college soccer in the United States, when he secured a scholarship to play at Northern Oklahoma College. [rc 5]
Altidor played college soccer for Northern Oklahoma College, [rc 2] where he earned an associate degree in Business Administration [1] before he secured a scholarship in 2006 to play at Temple University in Philadelphia. [2]
In December 2009, Altidor obtained a bachelor's degree in marketing from Temple and secured a position with a marketing firm in New Jersey. [1]
Altifor played before 2005 with the Abacom United Football Club [1] where he was named league MVP and helped his team win the Bahamas national championships. [rc 5] Altidor moved to the capital, where he played for the national team for three years before he was recruited by a college. [3]
He played college soccer for Northern Oklahoma College from 2005 to 2007 [rc 6] where he helped to lead the team to the national championships. [3]
Altidor was courted by numerous teams, [3] choosing Temple. [rc 7] He transferred to Temple University in 2007 where he impressed early [rc 6] helping them to win the Drexel Invitational Tournament in September 2007, where he was named defensive MVP. [rc 2] The same week, he was named the Atlantic 10 Conference co-player of the week. [rc 8] Later in the season, he was an Honourable Mention on the All Conference Team, and was named the only defender on the Philadelphia All-Star Team. [2] [rc 9]
Altifor represented his country at junior and senior level, [rc 5] including serving as team captain. [1] He played in Olympic qualifiers in 2003 and World Cup qualifiers in 2006. [rc 5] [rc 10] [rc 11]
During the summer of 2007, he trained in New York City and in France, where he was offered a professional contract, which he turned down. [2] In December 2007, he trained in Nassau with the national team for a World Cup qualifier against the British Virgin Islands. [2] In 2008, he helped Temple to the semi-finals of the A-10 Conference Semi-finals. [rc 12] During his senior year at Temple, Altidor was shot off campus [4] in a spate of incidents affecting students near campus. [rc 13] [rc 14]
After college, Altidor played senior football for the Ocean City Barons [rc 15] and the Lancaster Inferno. [rc 1] From 2009 to 2015, he played in Nassau with the Bears FC. [rc 1] Altidor now works as a real estate agent.
(Also credited at times as Mackinson Altidor [sic].)
Junior Mackenson Altidor won defensive MVP honors as Temple defeated Howard, 3-0, to capture the Drexel Invitational Tournament crown. After transferring from Northern Oklahoma at the beginning of the season, the sweeper from the Bahamas made his presence known early, helping the Owls improve to 2-1-1 on the young season.
All six athletes have represented the Bahamas internationally on both the junior and senior levels.
Two of the newcomers, Mackenson Altidor and Jared Harris, were named to the A-10 Preseason All-Rookie Team. Mackenson, a junior defenseman, transferred from Northern Oklahoma Junior College. Harris, a freshman midfielder, played at Manheim Township High in Lancaster, Pa. before coming to Temple. Both Altidor and Harris were in the starting lineup for the first two games.
Temple University made it all the way to the A-10 Conference Semi-finals, before succumbing to Dayton 2-1. The school ended the season with a 10-5-4 record, a considerable improvement on last year. Bahamian Mackinson Altidor was featured on the cover of the school's soccer media guide.