Bucknell University has added former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and George Washington University head coach Adam Foley as an assistant men’s water polo coach. Foley most recently served as the head coach of the men’s and women’s teams at George Washington. He was named the Colonials’ head coach in April 2015 after serving as the interim head coach beginning in December 2014.
No stranger to the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC), Foley spent the 2013 campaign as an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins University, where he helped guide the team to a 21-10 record. It was just the third 20-win season in the Blue Jays’ history.
Foley spent two years with the Trinidad and Tobago national team, serving as its technical director of water polo development and head coach of the senior and junior national teams. During his tenure, the youth squad qualified for the World Junior Championships, and the country established itself as the premier team in its region.
Foley was the head coach of the MIT men’s varsity team and women’s collegiate club squad from 2007 to 2011. During his four years in Cambridge, the Engineers’ men’s program won the 2007 and 2010 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Division III Eastern Championship titles. Following the 2008 campaign, he was named the CWPA Northern Division Coach of the Year. He also coached two CWPA Northern Division Rookies of the Year and seven Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-America selections at MIT.
During his collegiate playing career, Foley was a standout at two-meter defense for the University of Redlands in Southern California; he graduated ranked third in program history in steals (202), fifth in assists (103), fifth in ejections drawn (100) and seventh in goals (111).
As a senior in 2003, Foley was named both the ACWPC Division III National Player of the Year and the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Player of the Year after tallying 39 goals, 36 assists and 60 steals. A three-time All-SCIAC selection and a member of three SCIAC championship teams, he led Redlands to an 80-40 (.667) overall record and a 33-1 (.971) SCIAC mark during his four-year playing career.
Foley also starred on the swimming team at Redlands, earning 2002 All-America honorable mention laurels in the 1,650-yard freestyle and graduating as the school record holder in the 500-yard freestyle, 1,000-yard freestyle and 400-yard medley relay.
Foley has also served as a statistical consultant for James Graham and Associates, a pioneer in the field of water polo analytics. In addition, he was an associate coach for the U.S. Olympic Development Program in the Northeast Zone for boys 18-and-under in 2010-11.
Foley earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Redlands in 2004 and his master’s degree in teaching and curriculum development from Northeastern University in 2009.
Release courtesy Bucknell University Athletics Communications
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