Andre Barbins is entering his 13th season at the helm of the Seahawk men's and women's swimming programs in 2010-11.  Barbins has three times been selected the Capital Athletic Conference Women's Swimming Coach of the Year, receiving the honor in 2004, 2008 and 2009.

He also serves as the aquatics director for the Michael P. O'Brien ARC Aquatics Center.

The women have set 52 school records since his arrival in 1998, including establishing 16 of 19 possible SMCM records during the 2008-09 season, and have had six Seahawks qualify for the NCAA Championships, while the men have broken 27 school records.

The Seahawk swimmers have also excelled out of the pool as the women have been tabbed as a College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) All-Academic Team during all 12 years of Barbins' tenure while the men have earned the honor five times.

A 1993 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, he was a four-year letterwinner and team captain for the Battling Bishops.  After leaving OWU, Barbins spent one season as the head coach at Regina H.S. in Euclid, Ohio, and one season as an assistant coach at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

He left Ohio for Washington (Md.) College in Chestertown where he earned a master's degree in psychology while serving as a graduate assistant coach for two seasons.  After his stint at Washington, Barbins spent a year and a half as an assistant coach at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

A Cleveland native, he currently makes his home in Solomons with his wife, the former Sharon Eliassen, and their daughter, Anya.