Eric Bugby to Lead Roadrunner Swim & Dive Program

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Cal State Bakersfield Assistant Vice President/Director of Athletics Kyle Conder has introduced the rent of Eric Bugby because the Roadrunners’ new Director of Swimming & Diving.

Bugby joins CSUB after successful three Coach of the Year awards and 4 convention championships over six seasons because the Head Coach at Niagara University in New York.  Under Bugby’s management, the mixed males’s and girls’s program skilled a powerful turnaround that resulted in his groups rising from the underside of the convention standings to a number of group championships within the final 4 years.

“We are very excited to welcome Eric Bugby to the Roadrunners as our new Head Swimming and Diving Coach,” Conder stated. “Coach Bugby is a proven program builder with a championship mindset, and his track record of elevating teams and developing student-athletes is outstanding. His values align perfectly with our vision to pursue championships and graduate leaders. We are confident that Eric will lead our swimming and diving program to new heights – in the pool, in the classroom, in the community, and beyond.”

Bugby expressed his eagerness to leap off the blocks with the `Runners:

“I’m honored and excited to be named the director of men’s and women’s swimming at Cal State Bakersfield. I want to thank Kyle Conder and Eddie Brewer for the opportunity to develop a championship team and championship culture with the CSUB swimmers and divers. Our values and goals lined up from the first phone call and it’s clear the entire department wants to achieve exceptional results in the classroom, in the pool, on the boards, and with the Bakersfield community. Keep your eyes on this program because the best is yet to come. Go `Runners!”

Bugby brings almost twenty years of teaching expertise to Bakersfield. At every cease, Bugby produced success by recruiting employees and student-athletes who purchased into being half of a group, not simply on a group. Wrapping up his time at Niagara, Bugby was named the 2025 MAAC Coach of the Year as his males’s and girls’s squads swept the convention Championships.

In whole, the Purple Eagles notched over 400 program Top 10 performances, 71 pool information, 38 MAAC titles (18 relay, 20 particular person), 14 MAAC information, and two NCAA B-Cuts throughout Bugby’s tenure. He took the Niagara girls’s group from a seventh-place standing within the convention to 3 MAAC crowns up to now 4 seasons. On the lads’s facet, the Purple Eagles went from ninth to first, successful this system’s first convention title since 1994.

Bugby additionally has expertise because the Associate Head Coach at Lehigh University, an Assistant Coach for the University of Denver, and the Associate Head Coach for the United States Military Academy (Army West Point).

A former collegiate student-athlete himself, Bugby is aware of what it takes to develop student-athletes into Champions within the pool and in life. From his first teaching gig as a graduate assistant coach at Arizona State to current day, Bugby has proved his capacity to supply convention Champions, NCAA All-Americans, Olympic Trialists, and World Championships Qualifiers, which all bode effectively for the way forward for CSUB Swim & Dive. Stay tuned with the `Runners through GoRunners.com and on social media (@csub_swim) as Bugby ushers Cal State Bakersfield into a brand new period.

CSUB Athletics is the NCAA Division I program for Bakersfield and Kern County. The Roadrunners have claimed 30 nationwide championships and 215 particular person nationwide titles. Located within the ninth largest metropolis in California, CSUB Athletics sponsors 16 sports activities and is a proud member of The Big West and Pac-12. Buy tickets to all Cal State Bakersfield dwelling competitions by visiting GoRunners.com/Tickets and help CSUB Athletics’ imaginative and prescient to Pursue Championships and Graduate Leaders by donating to the Roadrunner Club at GoRunners.com/Give.