Brown Names New Men’s Lacrosse Coach

Brown Names New Men’s Lacrosse Coach

Brown University has named Jon Torpey the men's lacrosse coach.

The Bears come off one of its worst seasons and a decade-long collapse of a once power program.

Torpey joins Brown after leading High Point University since 2010. Leading the HPU men’s lacrosse program since its inception (NCAA season began in 2013), Torpey took just three seasons of NCAA competition to lead the Panthers to their first NCAA Tournament berth when the team defeated Richmond in the 2015 Southern Conference Championship game. He led the Panthers to their second NCAA tournament appearance in 2022 after defeating Richmond in the SoCon final, 11-8. 

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He becomes the seventh Brown men’s lacrosse head coach since 1963. 

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Torpey led High Point to 89 victories in seven winning seasons. Under Torpey, High Point had six wins over ranked opponents, including wins over #2 Duke and #9 Virginia in the 13-win 2019 season.

Before arriving at High Point, Torpey spent two seasons as the associate head coach at Dartmouth under head coach Andy Towers Brown, ‘93 alum, and five seasons before that as an assistant at the University of Denver under Jamie Munro Brown, ‘89 alum.

A 2000 graduate of Ohio State, Torpey was a three-year captain of the Buckeyes under head coach Joe Breschi, an assistant coach at Brown from 1993-97, and current head coach at North Carolina.

Torpey earned Smith & Street’s All-America honors as a senior and was a three-time Big 10 All-Academic honoree and four-year Scholar-Athlete Award winner.

In the professional ranks, Torpey won a NLL title with the Colorado Mammoth in 2006 and a MLL title with the Philadelphia Barrage in 2004.