Jim Bossert rejoined the Lancers as head coach of the men’s and women’s swimming & diving programs ahead of the 2024 season. Bossert’s debut season was one to remember as he was named the WAC Coach of the Year.
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\r\nBossert is a CBU grad, earning his Master’s Degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in exercise science in May of 2016.
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\r\nDuring his time away from the Lancers, Bossert gained Division I coaching experience, starting with a season in Tuscaloosa with the Alabama Crimson Tide. Following his time in the SEC, Bossert began his return west with a stint at the University of Wyoming.
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\r\nWith Wyoming, Bossert coached the spring group. In 2021, the men’s team finished in the top three at the WAC Championships, while the women’s team placed top four at the Mountain West Conference Championship. The season before, Bossert guided the women’s team to a top three Mountain West finish, and he also coached a male athlete that broke the 20 second barrier in the 50 yard freestyle.
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\r\nWyoming won its first conference championship in 59 years during Bossert’s first season.
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\r\nAfter Wyoming, Bossert returned to California to be an assistant coach for the Fresno State Bulldogs.
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\r\nBossert swam collegiately at NCAA Division III Grove City College in Grove City, PA, before joining the Lancers as a graduate student in 2015. He earned his Bachelor’s Degre in Accounting from Grove City College in May 2025. He attends Verve City Church with his family.
Miranda King joined the CBU swim and dive staff as the Head Diving Coach in August 2023. King is entering her second season as the Head Men's and Women's Diving Coach at California Baptist University (CBU), a decade after competing as a student-athlete on the CBU Dive Team under Coach Jeff Couto. In her inaugural season, she led the team to a remarkable year, with her divers mastering seventy-three new dives. Four school records were set under her guidance: Mario Del Valle Jr. broke the Men’s 1M, 3M (twice), and Platform records, while Natalia Bedolla set a new Women’s 3M record. Eight Lancer divers qualified for the NCAA Zone meet, with Del Valle Jr. and Gael Jimenez advancing to the NCAA Championships in five total events. Del Valle Jr. was named WAC Diver and Freshman of the Year, and Coach King earned WAC Men's Diving Coach of the Year honors.
\r\n\r\nIn the 2022-2023 season, King took a hiatus from collegiate athletics to explore Event Technology Operations, traveling globally to assist with conferences and events. Prior to that, she coached at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in the Division I Western Athletic Conference (WAC). In her final season there, she had two divers qualify for the NCAA Zone E Championships.
\r\n\r\nDuring the 2020-2021 pandemic-affected season, NMSU divers achieved multiple top-eight finishes at the WAC Championships. The 2019-2020 season saw Italia Aranzabal set a school record on the three-meter board, and King coached her through a standout season that included a place in the Diving Olympic Trials for Mexico. King also helped multiple Aggies reach the NCAA Zone E Championships, where she consistently developed high-performing divers who earned several WAC Diver of the Week titles.
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\r\n\r\nShe has also served as the National Team coach for her native Indonesia since 1985 and has led the team to such events as the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics,\u00A0 as well as the World Games, University Games and Asian Games.
\r\n\r\nSiregar serves as the Secretary General for the Asian Swimming Federation, and is a Vice President/Chairman of Swimming Development for Indonesia.
\r\n\r\nShe was a swimmer on the Indonesian National Team from 1966-73 when Indonesia won the Asian Swimming Championships in the 70s. She set several Indonesian swimming records that have since been broken.
\r\n\r\nSiregar earned a bachelor’s degree in international business from Cal State L.A. in 1981 and a master’s degree in business administration from Northrop in 1983.
\r\n\r\nShe and her husband, Chris, have three children (Rhesa, Chrisilla and Rhesi).
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\r\nRowland also led CBU\u00A0men’s water polo team through its first 16\u00A0years of existence (1999-2015) and women's water polo through its first eight seasons (2000-2007).
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\r\nIn swimming, both Rowland's men's and women's swim and dive teams have combined for nine NAIA National Championships over the course of his tenure with the men winning four (2006-09) and the women winning five (2005-08, 2011). Since transitioning to NCAA Division II in 2013-14, nine\u00A0of Rowland's 10\u00A0squads have completed top-14\u00A0finishes in their division. The men accomplished the program's top finish in the NCAA as national runners-up in Division II in 2018. \u00A0
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\r\nCBU has produced four\u00A0individual NCAA champions, with three on the women's side. Buse Topcu won the 500-yard freestyle (4:47.14), Christie Halverson won the 1000 free\u00A0(9:00.51.96)\u00A0in 2016\u00A0and\u00A0Mary Hanson won the school’s first individual NCAA champion in the 100\u00A0backstroke (52.45) in 2014. Scott Tolman won the first NCAA title for the men in the 200 breast (1:55.09).
Rowland was named 2001 NAIA Coach of the Year as both teams placed second. He also earned women's Coach of the Year honors in 2006 and 2011, and was named Men's Coach of the Year in 2008. He was also named the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) National Invitational Championship (NIC) Men's Coach of the Year in 2018-19.
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\r\nHis men have won 67\u00A0individual national\u00A0championships and 14 relay titles, while the women have won 44\u00A0individual crowns and six relay races. Under Rowland, 85\u00A0different men and 80\u00A0different women have earned All-American honors.
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\r\nSince making the jump to NCAA competition, Rowland's teams have won seven\u00A0Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference titles in three years. In 2016 and 2018, the Lancers swept both the men's and women's crowns. The\u00A0women\u00A0won all five RMAC titles from 2014-18, while the men never finished worst than second. Rowland was named the RMAC Women's Swimming/Diving Coach of the Year in\u00A02014,\u00A02015 and 2017 and added the Men's Coach of the Year honor in 2016 and 2018.\u00A0
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\r\nIn 2018-19, CBU's first season in its transition to NCAA Division I, the Lancer men took second place in the Western Athletic Conference and at the CSCAA NIC. The women took fourth in the WAC and 21st in the NIC.\u00A0
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\r\nRowland started on campus during the 1998-99 season as Director of Aquatics and spent one year recruiting and starting the program from scratch. Previously, he coached at Santa Margarita High School from 1993-98 and Villa Park High School from 1988-93. He was also a high school and intermediate school teacher during this time.
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\r\nFrom 1982-85, Rowland was the assistant coach for men's water polo and swimming at Pepperdine, his alma mater (his father, Rick Sr., was the head coach). Rowland graduated from Pepperdine with a bachelor's degree in physical education and kinesiology in 1981. He was a standout swimmer and water polo player there while playing for his father.
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\r\nRowland also earned a master's degree in education from Azusa Pacific in 1999. He and his wife, Teri, have two children Trevor and Meghan.
\r\nRowland's Swim Teams at the NAIA Championships
| Year | \r\n\t\t\tSchool | \r\n\t\t\tMen | \r\n\t\t\tWomen | \r\n\t\t
| 1999-2000 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t
| 2000-01 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t
| 2001-02 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t3rd | \r\n\t\t
| 2002-03 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t
| 2003-04 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t
| 2004-05 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t
| 2005-06 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t
| 2006-07 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t
| 2007-08 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t
| 2008-09 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t
| 2009-10 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t
| 2010-11 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t1st | \r\n\t\t
\r\nRowland's Swim Teams at the NCAA Championships
| Year | \r\n\t\t\tSchool | \r\n\t\t\tMen | \r\n\t\t\tWomen | \r\n\t\t
| 2013-14 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t20th | \r\n\t\t\t9th | \r\n\t\t
| 2014-15 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t10th | \r\n\t\t\t8th | \r\n\t\t
| 2015-16 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t12th | \r\n\t\t\t13th | \r\n\t\t
| 2016-17 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t12th | \r\n\t\t\t14th | \r\n\t\t
| 2017-18 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t2nd | \r\n\t\t\t10th | \r\n\t\t
| 2018-19 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\tN/A | \r\n\t\t\tN/A | \r\n\t\t
| 2019-20 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\tN/A | \r\n\t\t\tN/A | \r\n\t\t
| 2020-21 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\tN/A | \r\n\t\t\tN/A | \r\n\t\t
\r\nCBU men's water polo\u00A0competed\u00A0against the nation's top programs under Rowland, and was a part of the national ranking system that includes all NCAA schools. The men's team has regularly been ranked in the top 20 during Rowland's tenure, and the 2011 season's ranking of No. 13 was the highest in program history.
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\r\nThis past year, the Lancers joined a conference, the Western Water Polo Association, for the first time in program history and finished 15-17 overall, with four wins over ranked opponents.
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\r\nIn 15 seasons, Rowland has led the men's team to an overall record of 334-174 (.657) and a record of 284-158 (.642) against four-year varsity programs. He collected his 300th career win as the men's coach with a 12-7 win at Vanguard on Nov. 11, 2011. In 2007 and 2008, CBU hosted and claimed the NAIA Men's Water Polo Invitational Tournament.
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\r\nRowland's women's teams went 162-106 (.604) overall and 147-101 (.593) against varsity teams in the first eight years he ran the program before handing the program over after the 2007 women's season. Combined, he has a career record of 496-280 (.639) overall and 431-259 (.624) against varsity teams.
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\r\nHe has coached six AWPCA All-Americans on the men's side and eight AWPCA All-American honorable mentions (seven men, one woman); a list that includes the top players in the NCAA. He has had a total of 114 players (70 men, 44 women) be named to the AWPCA All-Academic Team and has also had four men's players named to the CoSIDA All-Academic All-District Team.
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\r\nIn terms of combined wins he captured his 100th career victory Feb. 24, 2001 with a 13-9 overtime win against Redlands on the women’s side. His 200th win came three years later on the men’s side with a 12-6 win over Arizona, Oct. 22, 2004. Rowland won his 300th career game in 2006 against Iona (12-5), March 10. He notched his 400th career victory over Golden West Community College on October 6, 2009.
Rowland's Career Head Coaching Record
\r\n\r\n| Men's Water Polo | \r\n\t\t\tSchool | \r\n\t\t\tRecord | \r\n\t\t\tvs. 4-year Varsity Programs | \r\n\t\t
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| 1999 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t25-9 | \r\n\t\t\t16-8 | \r\n\t\t
| 2000 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t21-12 | \r\n\t\t\t16-8 | \r\n\t\t
| 2001 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t26-13 | \r\n\t\t\t20-8 | \r\n\t\t
| 2002 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t24-8 | \r\n\t\t\t21-8 | \r\n\t\t
| 2003 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t12-15 | \r\n\t\t\t9-15 | \r\n\t\t
| 2004 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t19-15 | \r\n\t\t\t13-12 | \r\n\t\t
| 2005 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t17-16 | \r\n\t\t\t12-16 | \r\n\t\t
| 2006 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t23-12 | \r\n\t\t\t19-12 | \r\n\t\t
| 2007 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t27-12 | \r\n\t\t\t25-12 | \r\n\t\t
| 2008 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t29-11 | \r\n\t\t\t27-10 | \r\n\t\t
| 2009 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t23-7 | \r\n\t\t\t20-7 | \r\n\t\t
| 2010 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t32-6 | \r\n\t\t\t30-5 | \r\n\t\t
| 2011 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t24-9 | \r\n\t\t\t24-8 | \r\n\t\t
| 2012 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t17-12 | \r\n\t\t\t17-12 | \r\n\t\t
| 2013 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t15-17 | \r\n\t\t\t15-17 | \r\n\t\t
| 2014 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t15-20 | \r\n\t\t\t14-20 | \r\n\t\t
| Totals | \r\n\t\t\t16 Years | \r\n\t\t\t349-194 | \r\n\t\t\t298-178 | \r\n\t\t
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| Women's Water Polo | \r\n\t\t\tSchool | \r\n\t\t\tRecord | \r\n\t\t\tvs. 4-year Varsity Programs | \r\n\t\t
| 2000 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t23-9 | \r\n\t\t\t18-9 | \r\n\t\t
| 2001 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t19-16 | \r\n\t\t\t15-6 | \r\n\t\t
| 2002 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t20-14 | \r\n\t\t\t18-14 | \r\n\t\t
| 2003 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t18-17 | \r\n\t\t\t17-14 | \r\n\t\t
| 2004 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t22-14 | \r\n\t\t\t20-14 | \r\n\t\t
| 2005 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t23-10 | \r\n\t\t\t22-8 | \r\n\t\t
| 2006 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t16-15 | \r\n\t\t\t15-15 | \r\n\t\t
| 2007 | \r\n\t\t\tCBU | \r\n\t\t\t21-11 | \r\n\t\t\t19-11 | \r\n\t\t
| Totals | \r\n\t\t\t8 Years | \r\n\t\t\t162-106 | \r\n\t\t\t144-101 | \r\n\t\t
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| Combined | \r\n\t\t\t24 Years | \r\n\t\t\t511-300 | \r\n\t\t\t442-279 | \r\n\t\t
David Herd was named the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach in April 2022, and he was elevated to the Director of Strength and Conditioning in the summer of 2026.\u00A0He previously served as CBU Baseball's Director of Operations for two-and-a-half seasons (2019-22).
\r\n\r\nIt was a homecoming for Herd, who graduated from CBU in 2015 and served as a volunteer assistant pitching coach in the 2016 season. Prior to CBU, he worked as a Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center from 2017-19.
\r\n\r\nOver the last season-and-a-half (2020-21), CBU has gone 47-24 and won a share of the Western Athletic Conference regular season title. Eight Lancers earned All-WAC honors in 2021. The Lancers' 40 wins were the most by a team in the second full year of its NCAA Division I transition, while CBU received votes in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Top-30 D-I rankings in 10 weeks.
\r\n\r\nHerd enjoyed a tremendous pitching career for the Lancers from 2012-15 and earned All-PacWest honors in 2013. His 23 career victories are tied for the fifth most in CBU's all-time career record book, while his 63 appearances rank sixth, seven complete games are tied for seventh, 245.2 innings pitched rank eighth, and his 182 strikeouts are 12th.
\r\n\r\nHerd works with Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Men’s and Women’s Swim, Men’s and Women’s Cross Country/Track, and Women’s Water Polo. His excellence was recognized with the Lancers Choice Award as Staff-lete of the Year for 2023-24.
\r\n\r\nHe earned two degrees from CBU, earning a Bachelor’s in Exercise Science in 2015 and a Master of Science in Kinesiology, with an emphasis in exercise science, in 2016. Herd is currently working on his Doctorate in Performance Psychology.
\r\n\r\nHe and his wife Brilee reside in Menifee, CA, with their son Brier and daughter Bowie. The Herd family attends Revival Christian Fellowship.
\r\n\r\nDavid's favorite verse is Joshua 1:9: \"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.\"
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