Returning to Pacific for his second stint, Adam Foley was hired as Associate Head Coach for the women's water polo program in Aug. 2025.
Foley previously served as Assistant Coach with Pacific men's and women's water polo in 2022-23. In that year, the men's team won the Golden Coast Conference Tournament, won a game in the NCAA Tournament to reach the national semifinals and finished with a 22-7 record. The women ended 14-10 and won two games in the GCC Tournament.
The past two seasons, Foley served as Head Coach of the Navy Aquatic Club. He managed a team of six coaches to serve six different age groups and grew the program from 60 to 100 athletes.
Foley has Division I head coaching experience as he was at the helm of the men's and women's water polo teams at George Washington. He started as an assistant coach in 2014 before being promoted to Interim Head Coach in Dec. 2014 and Head Coach in April 2015.
Foley also brings national team experience as he spent two years with Trinidad and Tobago in 2011-13, serving as its technical director of water polo development and head coach of the senior and junior national teams. During his tenure, the Trinidad and Tobago youth squad qualified for the World Junior Championships and the country established itself as the premier team in the region.
Foley was head coach of the MIT men's varsity team and women's collegiate club squad from 2007-11. During his four years in Cambridge, the Engineers' men's program won pair of CWPA Division III Eastern Championship titles in 2007 and 2010.
Foley was a four-year letterwinner at the University of Redlands, ranking seventh in school history in goals (111), fifth in assists (103), third in steals (202) and fifth in ejections drawn (100) when he graduated. As a senior in 2003, Foley was named both Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year and ACWPC Division III National 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, Foley led Redlands to an 80-40 (.667) overall record and a 33-1 (.971) mark in the SCIAC during his four-year playing career.
Upon graduation, Foley joined the Redlands coaching staff as a graduate assistant for the men's and women's water polo and swimming programs. During his one-year tenure with his alma mater, Coach Foley helped guide the Bulldogs' men's water polo team to a 24-11 record and the women's squad to a 20-13 mark and a SCIAC title.
A native of Ashland, Oregon, 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.
