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Rob Lias Jr., who worked with three NCAA Championship-winning teams during his two years as an assistant at Auburn, begins his second season as an assistant coach for the Navy women's swimming program.

His first year on The Yard turned into a special one at Navy. The Mids set multiple Navy, Patriot League and Patriot League Championship records last season in the process of bringing home the squad's first Patriot League title in five years and a league-best ninth crown in 16 seasons.

In addition to success at the school and within the league last year, four Navy swimmers totaled six NCAA Championship provisional cuts, five members of the squad competed at the USA Spring Championship and two took part in the US Senior Nationals meet.

Lias, who serves as Navy's recruiting coordinator and designs the team's dryland and strength program, came to Navy after two seasons as a graduate assistant coach for both the men's and women's programs at Auburn. After the men's team won the NCAA championship during his initial 2004-05 season, both teams claimed national titles during his second year at the school.

He began his coaching career during the summer of 2002 when he served as a volunteer assistant coach at New Paltz High School. After one season on the prep level, he moved on to the collegiate ranks as an assistant at Mount Union College.

A 2000 graduate of Mount Union, Lias was a four-year letterwinner for the Raiders and served as the team captain during his senior year. He earned his way onto All-Ohio Athletic Conference teams 13 times during his career, won a pair of individual event conference titles (1999 in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events) and was named as the team MVP during his junior and senior years.

In addition to his coaching experience, Lias also has run technique based swimming camps across the country through Total Immersion Swimming, Inc.