Courtesy: CBU Athletics
RIVERSIDE, CA – California Baptist University athletics announces the return of two Lancer alumni to the Swim and Dive coaching staff for the upcoming 2023-24 season. James (Jim) Bossert joins the coaching ranks as the Associate Head Coach for Men’s and Women’s Swim. Miranda King returns to Riverside as the Head Diving Coach, replacing three-time WAC Diving Coach of the Year, Jeff Couto, who recently accepted a new role as the Sports Pastor with The Grove Community Church.
“California Baptist University Athletics is pleased to welcome back two former Lancer athletes to the coaching ranks,” said Vice President for Athletics, Dr. Micah Parker. “Coach Bossert and Coach King will make fantastic additions to the CBU Athletics staff, bringing with them years of high-level collegiate experience and success as well as a passion to live out the CBU Athletics mission of Honoring Christ Through Excellence in Athletics.”
Jim Bossert – Associate Head Swim Coach
Bossert has spent most of the last decade coaching various levels of swimming across the nation. He has held assistant coaching positions at Alabama and Fresno State and a four-year stint with WAC rival Wyoming. He has spent the previous year coaching club, high school, and junior college teams in Central California.
“I’d first like to thank Dr. [Micah] Parker and Coach [Rick] Rowland for this opportunity to be back at CBU and to be part of the Lancer family,” said Bossert. He added, “I am extremely excited and blessed to come back to CBU! My wife Ali and I have dreamed about returning to the place where we met for as long as we can remember, and to be able to come to CBU and work alongside Coach Rowland and Coach Lisa [Siregar] is a dream come true. We love CBU and can’t wait to be back in the Inland Empire and show our son Charlie around campus.”
Bossert swam collegiality at NCAA Division III Grove City College in Grove City, PA, from 2011-2015 and at NCAA Division II California Baptist University for the 2015-2016 season. He completed his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Grove City in May 2015 and earned his master’s degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in exercise science in May 2016 from CBU.
Miranda King – Head Dive Coach
King has been coaching competitive diving for over a dozen years, starting with Vista Murrieta High School in 2011, adding Turn N Burn Diving in 2013, and completing the Southern California trifecta with a two-year stretch with Division II powerhouse Pomona-Pitzer. Most recently, King headed up the New Mexico State Aggie women’s dive team, where she successfully coached multiple athletes to post-season competitions.
A two-time All-American, King competed at California Baptist University for four years as a diver. While at CBU, she was a member of the 2011 NAIA National Championship team as a freshman before the team began the transition to NCAA Division II. In her senior year, after the two-year transition, she qualified for the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Nationals. King received her bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from CBU in 2013. She still holds top-five marks in the program record book in the 1-meter (11 dives) and 3-meter (11 dives) competitions.
