Bobby Folan was named interim head coach in April 2015 after first joining the staff as head assistant coach in September 2012.
In his role on the Rebels' staff as head assistant coach, he managed the day to day operations of the staff, as well as oversaw the annual budget and supervised the recruiting program.
In his role as coach of the sprint program, Folan has and implemented all the aspects of that program, including drylands, weight training and practices. That program has lead to an impressive set of numbers over the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons: 20 individual and 14 relay school records, 10 individual and eigh relay conference champions, 10 Individual and 13 relay NCAA qualifiers, and three Individual and five relay NCAA scorers.
Folan came to UNLV after spending the previous four years coaching in Australia. From 2008 though the summer of 2010, Folan worked at the CISAC Swim Academy, serving as the head coach of the Ginninderra Swim Club. While with the academy, he placed four swimmers on the Australian National Teams.
Folan then moved onto the University of Sydney as the head coach since June of 2010, and he was named a finalist for the Premier Club Coach of the year in 2012. He coached the school to four medals in the Australian Open Nationals, while 16 more swimmers were finalists in a total of 35 events.
He was a four-time BIG EAST Academic All-Star selection while swimming for Connecticut from 2001-05, and received a double-major from the school, a bachelor of science degree in finance in May of 2005, and a bachelor of arts degree in math in August of that same year. Folan then moved onto Texas, where he received a master's of education degree, specializing in sport management in August of 2008. While at Texas, he was a volunteer assistant coach for the Texas men's team and also was an assistant coach for the Longhorn Aquatics club team.
