Brian Tobin enters his seventh season as head swimming and diving coach at SUNY Cortland in 2008-09. His men's and women's squads have each won at least 10 dual meets four times in his first six campaigns.
In the 2007-08 season, Cortland's men posted a 10-2 dual record and finished second at the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Championships, while the women's team went 10-1 and placed third in the SUNYAC. The women also sent a competitor to the NCAA Division III Championships. The previous season, the men's and women's teams finished with identical 12-1 dual records and each finished second in the league.
In the 2005-06 season, both the men’s and women’s teams finished second at the SUNYAC Championships and sent competitors to the national meet for the first time since the 1990s. The two previous years, Tobin guided the men’s and women’s teams to third-place finishes at the conference meet. In six seasons, Tobin has led Cortland's women to a combined 59-15-1 (.793) dual record, including a 13-3 record in 2002-03, and the Red Dragon men to a combined 56-22 (.718) dual mark.
Prior to his arrival at Cortland, Tobin was a volunteer assistant coach with the men’s and women’s varsity swimming and diving teams at North Carolina State University during the 2001-02 season, where he was also a lecturer in physical education. Previously, Tobin held the position of head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at the State University of New York at Potsdam from 1996-2001. His initial collegiate coaching position was as a graduate assistant at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse from 1994-96.
Tobin is a 1994 graduate of SUNY Cortland, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Education with a minor in sociology. In 1996, he earned his Masters of Science in Recreation Management from Wisconsin -La Crosse.
He was an eight-time All-American as a member the Cortland swimming and diving team, earning seven honors as a competitor on relay teams and one honor in the 100-yard freestyle. He also captured 12 SUNYAC titles over three seasons and set the school record in the 100-yard butterfly (which lasted until 2008). He was also a member of three school and one conference record-holding relay teams, with all of those school records still active.
A native of Poughkeepsie, Tobin attended Arlington High School, graduating in 1989. He was a four-year member of the swimming and diving team.
