Recruiting Areas: NYS Section 2 (Albany area)
Taj-Amir Torres begins his second season as Cortland's cornerbacks coach in 2024. During Cortland's 2023 national championship season, Torres coached an all-region and All-Empire 8 corrnerback and helped coach a defensive unit that allowed less than 20 points per game.
Torres played cornerback for four seasons at Division I Boston College from 2015-18. He finished his career with five interceptions, 16 pass breakups and 108 tackles, 72 solo. He intercepted passes versus Miami, Syracuse and Temple as a senior, and in his junior season returned an interception for a touchdown in a win over UConn. He signed as a free agent and attended rookie minicamp with the NFL's Tennessee Titans in 2019.
Torres graduated from Boston College in January 2019 with a bachelor's degree in applied psychology & human development, and history, and is a master's degree candidate in clinical psychology at American International College.
Torres was cornerbacks coach and assisted with wide receivers at Mark T. Sheehan High School in Connecticut in the fall of 2022 and was the program's defensive backs and receivers coach and special teams coordinator in the spring of 2023. He also coached defensive backs and was head strength coach at Putnam Vocational Technical Academy in Massachusetts in the spring of 2022 and coached at Xaverian Brothers High School (Mass.) and with Under Armour Youth Football in the summer of 2019.
The Amherst, Mass., native is a 2016 alumnus of Amherst Regional High School. He was a two-time first team All-Western Massachusetts football player as well as a four-time state champion sprinter on the track and field team with three titles in the 100-meter dash from 2013-15 along with a 200-meter dash crown in 2015.
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