Longtime collegiate lacrosse coach and 2011 Long Island Metropolitan Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame selection Tim McIntee was named the Hofstra men’s lacrosse volunteer assistant coach in September 2018 and promoted to assistant coach in August 2019. He enters his fifth season as a full-time assistant coach in 2022-23.
A Long Island native with more than three decades of coaching and playing experience on the collegiate, scholastic, and international levels, McIntee came to Hofstra from Mount St. Mary’s University, where he served as associate head coach/defensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator from August 2014 through July 2018.
In his first season at Hofstra, McIntee was selected to serves as an assistant coach for the North Team at the North-South Senior All-Star Game.
Prior to his tenure at the Mount, he served as assistant coach/defensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator at Dartmouth College from September 2012 through July 2014.
McIntee is probably best-known for elevating the Manhattan College lacrosse program to Division I status as the head coach of the Jaspers from November 1997 through June 2012. During his 15 seasons in Riverdale, he established Manhattan as a perennial contender in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, taking the Jaspers to the four-team MAAC Tournament seven times (2000, 2002, 2004-05 and 2008-10). His 2002 squad went undefeated (9-0) in conference play to capture the program’s first-ever MAAC Championship and automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. McIntee was named MAAC Coach of the Year for the second of three times in his career and the 11 victories that season were the most in team history. He is the winningest coach in Manhattan lacrosse history, compiling a 93 wins.
McIntee began his collegiate coaching career at St. John’s University, where he served as offensive/defensive coordinator for the Red Storm from January 1992 through January 1995. He also coached the boys’ lacrosse team at Syosset High School in 1996 and 1997, and coached at East Islip High School from 1994 to 1997.
McIntee was also selected as a coach for Team Ireland at the 2002 World Games, where he served as offensive coordinator and man-up coach. The Irish team went 6-2 during the tournament.
A graduate of LIU Post in Brookville, New York, with a degree in criminal justice, McIntee was a three-time NCAA All-American and a four-year letterwinner as a lacrosse midfielder. Following graduation, he played on the gold-medal winning Team USA in the 1990 World Championships. McIntee would go on to play professionally and serve as a team captain for the New York Saints of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL). In seven seasons (1990-97) with the Saints, he recorded 97 points on 46 goals and 51 assists. During that time, he called Seth Tierney a teammate for three seasons.
In addition to his LIMLF Hall of Fame honor in 2011, McIntee is also a 2011 LIU Post Hall of Fame inductee in both lacrosse and football. McIntee and his wife Deirdre have two children, Emily and Connor.
