Brian Bacharach is the head coach of the Fordham University water polo program in Bronx, New York, a position he has held since May 2020 after spending the previous six seasons on the Rams' staff as an assistant coach and, later, associate head coach and co-head coach.
Under Bacharach, Fordham has emerged as one of the top programs outside California. The Rams won five consecutive Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference championships from 2021 through 2025 and earned NCAA Championship berths in each of those seasons. Fordham advanced to the NCAA Championship semifinals in both 2024 and 2025, marking the deepest postseason runs in program history. His work during that rise brought repeated conference recognition, including MAWPC Coach of the Year honors in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, along with ACWPC Division I Coach of the Year honors in 2024. Earlier in his Fordham tenure, he was named MAWPC East Division Coach of the Year in 2021 and shared MAWPC East Division Co-Coach of the Year recognition in 2019.
