Player Bio: Jerry Foley - BUCKNELL OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Jerry Foley

	Last College: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy '84
	Position: Head Coach
	Experience: Eighth Season

Record at Bucknell:
29-23 (seven seasons)

Phone: 570-577-1530
Email: foley@bucknell.edu

Now entering his eighth year as head coach of Bucknell's men's and women's swimming and diving teams, Jerry Foley has elevated the Bison programs to heights not seen in more than a decade.

Only the fourth coach in the history of the Bison men's swimming program and the fifth coach for the women, Foley guided Bucknell to men's and women's Patriot League titles in 2003, and made it three straight crowns for the women's team in 2005. Under Foley's watch, the women's team put together a winning streak of 16 dual meet victories that included two undefeated seasons and stretched from November 2001 to September 2004.

Foley began his collegiate coaching and teaching career as the head coach at Division II Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., from 1989-94. While at Adelphi, he reinstated the university's varsity swimming program and had responsibilities as both an aquatics director and instructor in the physical education department. A 1984 graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Foley also earned a master's degree in physical education while at Adelphi.

Foley started coaching in the mid-1980s for a community-based United States Swimming (USS) club and high school aquatics programs in Deer Park, Long Island, N.Y. Foley enjoyed several successful years in Deer Park, which included developing national caliber athletes and winning a Suffolk County High School championship. Foley then served as a co-head coach at the highly successful Long Island Aquatic Club (LIAC), a perennial regional power. At LIAC, he led his teams to top-10 national finishes and numerous metropolitan and state championships.

Foley continued his coaching and teaching career when he accepted a faculty position at the United States Military Academy in 1994, serving as both an assistant in the swimming program and as an instructor in the physical education department. As the head assistant to Army head coach Ray Bosse, Foley supervised the development of the distance, middle distance and sprint freestylers. He was involved in all aspects of Army's swimming program, including recruiting, developing workouts and training schedules, scheduling and compliance. As an instructor in the Department of Physical Education at West Point, he was the aquatics subject matter expert and was responsible for the development of the freshman swimming program.

During Foley's stay at Army, the Black Knights remained a dominant force in the Patriot League, winning four men's championships and placing runner-up three out of four years on the women's side.

Foley inherited a Bucknell program that had enjoyed its share of success and has established itself as one of the top programs in the league. BU's men's and women's teams have annually contended with the top swimming programs in the East. In the 2001-02 season, he was named the Patriot League Women's Swimming Coach of the Year by his peers for the first time. He earned the honor again on both the men's and women's side after the teams' 2003 championship performances and most recently earned the honor of Women's Swimming Coach of the Year in 2005. Foley's men's and women's teams have won 63 percent (67-39) of their dual meets over the last five campaigns.

Under Foley's watch, 19 of 24 women's school records and 9 of 24 men's school records have fallen.