Tim Cox enters his eighth season with Siena Men's Lacrosse for the 2026 season. Cox was promoted from Assistant Coach to Associate Head Coach on September 8, 2025 after serving his first seven seasons as an assistant.
Cox was instrumental in helping the Saints win the MAAC Championship in 2025 and qualify for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 11 seasons. Siena equaled its most victories (11) since 2014, defeating #19/#16 and top conference seed Sacred Heart 12-8 in the championship.
The Saints earned a record haul of 13 All-MAAC awards including four major awards. Freshman Logan Banek became the sixth MAAC Rookie of the Year in program history and doubled as the MAAC Faceoff Specialist of the Year. Pratt Reynolds was the unanimous choice for MAAC Offensive Player of the Year while head coach Liam Gleason was named the MAAC Coach of the Year. Additionally, 23 student athletes from the men's lacrosse team were named to the MAAC All-Academic team.
2023 marked a highly successful year as well as Cox helped lead the Saints to the MAAC Championship Game. Along their playoff journey, Siena defeated top seeded (RV) Manhattan 11-8 at Riverdale's Gaelic Park in a MAAC Semifinal. And, for the first time in program history, Siena hosted its first postseason game at Hickey Field and defeated #5 Sacred Heart 13-11 in a MAAC Quarterfinal. It also marked the first time since 2014 that the team had won a postseason game.
Four student-athletes were named to the Men's Lacrosse All-MAAC Teams. Junior defense
Trevor Marsala was selected to the All-MAAC First Team while All-MAAC Second Team honors went to junior defense
Brian Mack, graduate student midfielder
Christian Watts and graduate student goalkeeper
Christopher Yanchoris. Marsala also became the first player in program history to be named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) squad as he was one of 13 total selections across the Northeast to be honored. Watts was selected for the United States Intercollegiate Association (USILA) Senior All-Star Game at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pa. Additionally, Yanchoris was the first player in program history to be twice named a USILA Division I Scholar All-American.
The Saints once again achieved a high GPA collectively as the team earned the USILA Team Academic award for a second consecutive season (3.35 term GPA and 3.27 cumulative GPA). 21 student-athletes on the team earned at least a 3.5 GPA for the spring team and four were named to the College Sports Communicators At-Large Academic All-District Team including
Jack Erb,
George Rusnak,
Pratt Reynolds and Yanchoris.
In 2022, Cox helped the Saints reach the Metro Atlantic Conference Championships as the No. 4 seed, the first such earned postseason achievement since 2014. Siena went 6-9 overall with a 3-3 mark in conference play.
With Cox's guidance, five student-athletes received recognition onto the All-MAAC Teams. Reynolds took home three postseason honors, most recognizably the MAAC Rookie of the Year. Reynolds becomes the first player in program history since
Bryan Neufeld in 2009 to win the league's Rookie of the Year honor, and fourth overall winner. Reynolds also took home All-MAAC Second Team Attack honors, as well as a selection to the MAAC All-Rookie Team.
Graduate student
Jack Kiernan took home an All-MAAC First Team Attack selection, while Marsala (defense),
Nick Pepe (short stick midfield), and Yanchoris (goalkeeper) all took home All-MAAC Second Team honors.
In 2021, Cox aided in coaching a pair of Saints to First Team All-MAAC honors and one MAAC All-Rookie Team selection.
Despite the 2020 season being shortened, Siena collected a pair of non-conference wins over LIU and NJIT, both coming at home. The Saints finished the season fifth in the nation in caused turnovers per-game (10.33) and saves per-game (14.83).
Cox helped guide the Saints to a 6-7 record in his first year with Liam Gleason, and saw four players earn All-MAAC selections.
Cox joined Siena after a two-year stint at Robert Morris University, where he helped lead the Colonials to a 22-12 record over two years. He helped guide the program's first ever NCAA appearance in 2018 after winning the NEC. The Colonials would defeat Canisius in the opening round before falling to top-ranked Maryland in the second round.
Cox was previously at UAlbany, helping them to a No. 4 ranking in the USILA Coaches Poll and Inside Lacrosse Cascade/Maverick Media Poll, the highest ranking for the team since 2007. The 2016 season marked the Great Danes' fourth consecutive perfect America East regular season.
A former standout Great Dane midfielder, Cox led UAlbany to three America East Tournament titles and a pair of NCAA Tournament victories. He collected America East All-Conference Second Team accolades while wearing the captain's "C" for his senior year in 2015. He finished his career with 40 goals and 12 assists for 52 points, adding 55 ground balls and 20 caused turnovers. In his senior season, he recorded at least one point in 16 of 19 games played.
