Jeff Tambroni

Jeff Tambroni is an American college lacrosse coach who leads the men's lacrosse program at Penn State, the Nittany Lions, a post he has held since 2010 and which reached its sixteenth season in 2026. As a player he competed for the Hobart Statesmen, where he is remembered as one of the greatest players in Hobart lacrosse history; he earned three All-America awards, won three national championships and was known as a dual-threat attackman who excelled at both scoring and passing. His coaching path began at his alma mater, where he was an assistant for three seasons from 1993 to 1996, followed by a year as an assistant at Loyola College in 1997 and a stretch as an assistant for the Cornell Big Red from 1997 to 2000. Cornell then made him its head coach, and he held that job from 2001 until 2010, when he took over the Penn State program that he continues to run.