Ryan Warsofsky, head coach of the NHL's San Jose Sharks, is serving as head coach for the U.S. Men's National Team for the first time at the 2025 IIHF Men's World Championship.

Warsofsky previously held the role of assistant coach for the U.S. Men's National Team at the 2023 IIHF Men's World Championship that finished fourth in Tampere, Finland and Riga, Latvia.

The North Marshfield, Mass., native concluded his first season as an NHL head coach with the Sharks in 2024-25 as the youngest bench boss in the league. He served as an assistant coach during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 campaigns.

Prior to joining the Sharks, Warsofsky was the head coach of the Chicago Wolves of the AHL for two seasons (2020-22), where, in 2022, at age 34, he became the youngest coach since Peter Laviolette in 1999 to guide a team to the Calder Cup. He also spent two seasons with the AHL’s Charlotte Checkers, one as an assistant (2018-19) and one as head coach (2019-20). In 2019, he helped guide the Checkers to a Calder Cup. 

Warsofsky’s coaching career began in 2012-13 with his alma mater NCAA Division III Curry College as an assistant after two seasons with the team as a player. He then joined the ECHL’s South Carolina Stingrays in 2013, serving as an assistant for three seasons before being promoted to head coach and director of hockey operations for his final two seasons (2016-18).