Cal State Bakersfield Hires Eric Bugby as Head Coach

Cal State Bakersfield Hires Eric Bugby as Head Coach

Cal State Bakersfield late last week announced the hiring of Eric Bugby as its director of swimming and diving.

Bugby is buying and selling coasts, having spent the final six seasons as the pinnacle coach at Niagara University in New York. He was 3 times named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, together with for each males’s and ladies’s in 2025. He led the Purple Eagles to girls’s MAAC titles in 2002, 2024 and 2025 and the lads to the title this yr.

Bugby stepped down in April to pursue new alternatives.

“I’m honored and excited to be named the director of men’s and women’s swimming at Cal State Bakersfield,” Bugby stated in a college assertion. “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 led Niagara swimmers to 38 MAAC titles (18 relay, 20 particular person), 14 convention data and two NCAA B cuts. The girls’s crew was seventh within the convention when he took over and turned them into three-time league champs.

Bugby swam at Duquesne University, graduating in 2007. He acquired his grasp’s diploma at Arizona State in 2009, the place he served as a graduate assistant coach for 2 years.

He went on to turn into an affiliate head coach on the United States Military Academy at West Point, an assistant coach on the University of Denver and an affiliate head coach at Lehigh.

“We are very excited to welcome Eric Bugby to the Roadrunners as our new Head Swimming and Diving Coach,” CSUB director of athletics Kyle 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.”