Jeff Tambroni
Head Coach · Penn State
Named head coach in 2010
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Final Fours × 6150
- NCAA tournament wins × 1664
- Players drafted × 2163
- Career wins × 25062.5
- Conference regular-season titles × 1248
- NCAA tournament appearances × 1545
- Title games × 140
- Head-coaching seasons × 2626
- Tewaaraton winners × 125
- Win % points above .500 × 15.415.4
- Conference tournament titles × 210
How it's scored: the board explains the weights (a national title is 100, a Final Four 25, a Tewaaraton winner 25).
Key numbers
- Career W-L
- 250-132
- D1 head coach · .654
- NCAA appearances
- 15
- NCAA wins
- 16 or more
- Final Fours
- 6
- Championships
- 0
- Conference titles
- 12 / 2
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 1 / 0
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 21 or more
Every number counts his Division I head-coaching jobs only. — is unknown (not found in the public pages read), never zero. A + means at least that many; * marks a record missing a D1 job or a season. Numbers labeled for his current school don't include his earlier D1 head-coaching jobs.
Career
- 141-92 (thru 2026)
Head coach · 2011–present
109-40Head coach · 2001–2010
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2026NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2025Final Four
- 2024NCAA tournament
- 2023Final Four · Conference regular-season title
- 2019Final Four · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2017NCAA tournament
- 2013NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2010Final Four · Conference regular-season title
- 2009NCAA title game · Conference regular-season title
- 2008NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2007Final Four · Conference regular-season title
- 2006NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2005NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2004NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2003Conference regular-season title
- 2002NCAA tournament
The seasons the pages name. A bio's narrative may not name every season, so this list can be short of his totals above.
Tewaaraton Award
- winnerMax Seibald · Cornell2009
Credited to the head coach of the player's school that season. Winners 2001–2026; finalists 2024–2026 only (older finalist lists aren't on the foundation's site).
All-Americans
— USILA's full lists couldn't be read yet, so no All-American is counted for any coach. What his school says is below.
Honors
- 2009 · USILA Division I Coach of the Year
- 2019 · Big Ten Coach of the Year
- 2011 · CAA Coach of the Year
- 2013 · CAA Coach of the Year
In the school's words
Sources
- https://gopsusports.com/staff-directory/department/mens-lacrosse · name and title
- https://gopsusports.com/news/2010/06/17/jeff-tambroni-named-head-coach-of-penn-state-mens-lacrosse-team · year named head coach, read for career record (not found), read for record at his school (not found), read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Tambroni · career stops, read for career record (not found), read for record at his school (not found), read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://gopsusports.com/staff/jeff-tambroni · career stops, read for career record (not found), read for record at his school (not found), read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found), honors, the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Big_Red_men%27s_lacrosse · record, conference titles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_men%27s_lacrosse · record
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_lacrosse_tournament_appearances_by_school · NCAA appearances, NCAA wins, Final Fours
- https://usila.org/sports/2015/10/27/GEN_1027151106.aspx · title games, championships
- https://www.tewaaraton.com/the-tewaaraton-award · Tewaaraton
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.