Anne “Annie Mac” MacIntyre: Success On and Off the Court
Written by Doug Goodnough
While a student at Hillsdale College, she was simply known as “Annie Mac.” Now, years later, Anne MacIntyre, ’90, is the successful owner of Annie Mac Financial in Metro Detroit. The former Charger volleyball standout transitioned from a successful law career to begin her own wealth management company in 2011.
“It wasn’t the road that I could see clearly when I graduated from Hillsdale,” said MacIntyre, an English major who received her law degree from Wayne State University in 1993. “I don’t know why (financial planning) makes perfect sense to me, but it does.”
MacIntyre almost didn’t make it to Hillsdale. As a standout in volleyball, softball, and tennis at Warren Cousino High School in metro Detroit, she was recruited by many colleges, including Hillsdale. Her parents wanted her to stay home, so she initially turned down a scholarship offer to play volleyball for the Chargers.
However, her senior summer travel softball coach, Dick Foster, was a proponent of Hillsdale. He, along with then-Hillsdale head softball coach Carolyn Gladnick, convinced her parents to visit campus.
“My parents came to Hillsdale and they saw what a good place it was. They loved the campus,” MacIntyre said. “The rest is history.”
Agreeing to play both volleyball and softball at Hillsdale, MacIntyre was a four-year starter at setter for the Charger volleyball program, earning academic all-conference three times and honorable mention all-conference honors as a senior. She said the team’s record did not reflect how competitive they were.
“We had some good wins,” said MacIntyre, recalling a win over then-No. 1 Northern Michigan. “We just didn’t have enough of them.”
She said she remains close to many of her Hillsdale friends and teammates, saying “I loved it from the minute I got there.”
In 1993, MacIntyre started playing recreational volleyball with some friends while working in Ann Arbor. She eventually discovered beach volleyball and soon was vigorously training to play competitively. For several years she competed in the Midwest Professional Volleyball Tour, and she was ranked No. 1 and was named tour MVP in 1997.
MacIntyre and her fiancée, John Polizzi, are involved in starting The Hill Pointe School, a proposed charter school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She said she is excited that Hillsdale College is also involved in the process.
“I’ve always felt that Hillsdale has had a big reach nationally,” said MacIntyre, who enjoys working out in her spare time. “It’s grown and flourished, which is really cool to see. We need more Hillsdales.”
Doug Goodnough, ’90, is Hillsdale’s director of Alumni Marketing. He enjoys connecting with fellow alumni in new and wonderful ways.
Published in March 2023