Roger Williams University Athletics

Tim Cohane has over 40 years of coaching experience, including 17 years as a head coach at the collegiate level. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, he began his coaching career at the Newport Naval Base in 1970, where he organized and coached the base team to the Navy final four.

After his Navy service, he organized the first men’s basketball program at Manhattanville College in New York and guided them to consecutive appearances in the NCAA Eastern Regional Championships in 1978 and 1979. After his success at Manhattanville he moved on to a four-year stint as the head coach at Dartmouth College. He left Dartmouth and spent three years on Wall Street working for Salomon Brothers. Then the coaching bug caught him and he took over a U.S. Merchant Marine Academy program that had lost their final nine games of the previous season and led them to a 25-3 record and into the NCAA Division III Tournament. From there, he went back to Wall Street and created his own investment banking firm, Cohane-Rafferty Securities. From there, he served as the associate head coach of the Boston College program for two years and then successfully transitioned the University of Buffalo program from Division II status to Division I and the Mid-American Conference. In his second season at Buffalo, the team won 18 games and posted their best record in 30 years. After a six-year stint, he returned to the private sector as President of Cohane-Lahart LLC, a marketing consulting firm.

He has also earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Rhode Island and graduated from the Roger Williams University School of Law in 2006. In 1998 he was named as an Ethic Fellow by the Institute of International Sport, which is based at URI.