Former Dallas Coach Andrea Cofrin named head coach of Columbia University Women's Lacrosse

(Portions of Story Courtesy of Columbia Sports Information)

NEW YORK – Andrea Cofrin served with the University of Dallas athletics department in 2005-06, guiding both women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse that year. Cofrin added another stop to her nine-year head coaching career last Thursday, September 3, by being announced as the next person at the helm of the Columbia University women’s lacrosse team.

Cofrin’s head coaching experience includes time at Saint Anselm, Siena, Lees-McRae College and the University of Dallas. She also served as an assistant coach for one year at Siena and one year at Oneonta State. Additionally, she spent more than three years as co-director and co-owner of the travel program, ADK Lacrosse.

While at Dallas, Cofrin holds the all-time winning percentage record for women’s soccer and led the 2005 squad to a 13-3 record and birth to the NCAA Tournament. In the spring semester of 2006, Cofrin was the third coach in as many years for varsity women’s lacrosse that was instituted in 2004. She guided the program to its highest amount of wins in a season at the time by going 4-9. Cofrin served as the senior women’s administrator as well.

Cofin’s most recent experience before joining the Lions last week, was an assistant coach for Yale University during the 2014-15 season, after leading Saint Anselm to its first NCAA Tournament appearance as the head coach in 2013-14..

In 2013-14, Cofrin led Saint Anselm to a 13-4 record, the best in program history. The Hawks were ranked No. 9 in Division II, marking their first top-10 appearance. The team had one All-American, two first team NE-10 honorees, the Saint Anselm Female Athlete of the Year and an inductee into the Chi Alpha Sigma National Student-Athlete Honor Society.

Prior to her time at Saint Anselm, Cofrin was the head coach at Siena for five years, leaving as the winningest coach in school history. She was the MAAC Coach of the Year in her second season (2010) and went on to lead the Saints to four consecutive MAAC Tournament appearances. She coached seven first team all-conference selections, including the 2012 MAAC Defender of the Year. Her team was named an IWLCA All-Academic Squad twice and had 31 MAAC all-academic selections. The team also participated in multiple community service efforts, volunteering for Ronald McDonald House, Habitat for Humanity and the Double H Ranch Camp Challenge Ride to benefit children with life-threatening illnesses.

Cofrin's other coaching stops included Lees-McRae, where she helped the team score 72 more goals (and allow 33 fewer goals) in 2008 than it did in 2007, and then at Dallas in 2005-06.

As an assistant coach at Siena in 2005, Cofrin helped the Saints to a share of the regular season MAAC championship and their first MAAC Tournament appearance.

Cofrin's coaching career began at Oneonta State, where she helped the team to a 10-6 mark in 2004 as an assistant.

Cofrin is a 2003 graduate of Frostburg State, earning a B.S. in sociology.

At Frostburg State, Cofrin was a four-year starter and helped the team to a pair of ECAC Tournament appearances. She served as captain her senior year, when she was fourth on the team with 20 goals. She was also a two-year starter for the soccer team, making a pair of AMCC Tournament appearances.

Cofrin and her husband, Shawn, have one daughter, Rhiannon.