Torin Varn is in his fourth season as an assistant coach with the Hofstra Women's Lacrosse program in 2020.
In 2019, he helped the team to a 12-win campaign and a spot in the Colonial Athletic Association Championship Game. The 12 wins were the most since 2010 and the appearance in the championship game was the first for Hofstra since 2013.
Varn serves as the program’s offensive coordinator. In his first season on the staff he helped lead the team to eight wins, a five-win improvement from the previous season. The Pride would win another eight games in 2018 as a young roster set the stage for future successes.
Varn has also established himself in other areas of the sport of women’s lacrosse as he will serve as an assistant coach with the New York Fight of the Women’s Professional Lacrosse League in 2018 and also works extensively with the Long Island Top Guns girls lacrosse club.
Varn, a 2014 graduate of Hofstra with a degree in history, was a four-year member of the Pride Men’s Lacrosse team and earned All-Colonial Athletic Association honors in his senior campaign.
Varn joined the Hofstra program after serving as a volunteer assistant men’s lacrosse coach at Mount St. Mary’s (MD) in 2016. He served as the offensive coordinator for the team and helped four players to all-conference accolades and two players earn spots in the North-South All-Star Game. Varn also assisted in recruiting and handling equipment.
Prior to his position at Mount St. Mary’s, Varn was a graduate assistant coach with the Stevenson men’s lacrosse program from 2014 to 2016. He handled a multitude of tasks with the Mustangs, including recruiting, practice planning, development and academic support.
Varn, a native of Ithaca, New York, also earned his first all-conference honor in 2014 by being named to the All-CAA second team. He started all 16 games on attack as a senior. Varn recorded career-highs of 32 goals, five assists and 37 points and led the team in goals and was second in points. He finished out his career with back-to-back 30-goal seasons. For his career he had 73 goals, nine assists and 82 points.
Varn has also worked various lacrosse camps as part of the Hopkins Hofstra Elite Lax Camp and has extensive volunteer experience with the HEADstrong Foundation, Tunnel to Towers Run and Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts.
