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On May 24, 2011, IUPUI Director of Athletics Mike Moore announced that Matt Bos would take over as head coach of the IUPUI men's and women's swimming and diving programs, becoming the second swimming and diving coach in IUPUI history. 

Since taking the helm of the program, Bos has turned the Jaguars in to perennial contenders in the conference. Under Bos' guidance, the men's program has finished second four times and third once, while the women have finished second twice and third twice. Three Jaguars have won individual conference titles under Bos. 

In the first two seasons as the Jaguars head coach, Bos training methods have paid dividends for the women's and men's programs as they went from last in the Summit League prior to his arrival, to second and third, respectively, at the 2013 Summit League Championships. With the women placing second, Bos was named the Summit League Women's Coach of the Year.

At the 2013 Summit League Championships, Bos helped guide eight women's athletes to all-conference honors, while six members of the men's squad also earned all-conference accolades. Among the all-conference winners was Jenny Oleksiak, who won the individual title in the 200 breaststroke, marking IUPUI's first individual conference swimming champion since the 2005 conference championships. Under Bos' watch, the Jags have rewritten the record books, which included setting a combined 25 new school records at the league meet.

In addition to Oleksiak claiming a conference title, Mitchell Gauger was named the Summit League Diver of the Year.

In 2011-12, Bos' first season at IUPUI, he led both the men's and women's programs to fourth-place finishes. However, the highlight of the season was watching IUPUI senior diver Chen Ni win her second national championship in the platform dive. Ni, who won the national championship in the same event two years earlier,

Bos spent the previous three seasons as the leader for the men’s and women’s program at his alma mater, Eastern Illinois, where he replaced long-time head coach, Ray Padovan, in July of 2008. In his first season as the EIU head coach, Bos helped eight Panthers swimmers to 2009 All-Summit League honors, with four earning spots from both the men’s and women’s sides.  

During the 2008-09 campaign, the Panthers squads notched an amazing 37 spots on the EIU Top Ten Times chart, including setting new Eastern Illinois records in ten different events. 

In three seasons on the Charleston, Ill., campus, Bos saw 37 school records fall while mentoring 33 All-Summit League performers, including the 2009 Summit League Newcomer of the Year, Ken Tiltges. Outside of the pool, Bos also saw 24 of his EIU athletes achieve Academic All-Summit League plaudits.

Prior to returning to EIU, Bos spent three years as the head swim coach for the San Antonio Wave, a top swim club in Texas. During his tenure, he has coached several Junior and Senior National qualifiers including Jimmy Feigen. 

Preceding his time in San Antonio, Bos worked for a year and a half as the coaching director at Swimming Wanganui in New Zealand. While abroad, he helped coach athletes from seven different countries with his squad earning its first-ever Top-20 national ranking in 2004-05. Bos also coached Annabel Kosten, who would go on to earn a bronze medal in the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics as a member of the Dutch 400 freestyle relay team. 

Bos was a two-year graduate assistant coach at Eastern Illinois from 2000-02, before working for a season as an assistant coach at Trinity University, an NCAA Division III school in San Antonio. In 2003-04 Bos was the head coach for the Swordfish Swim Team and assistant coach for Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois. During his time as a graduate assistant, he helped coach the Panthers to the 2002 Midwest Classic Championship. 

Bos is a ASCA level 4 certified coach and earned both his bachelor’s (2000) and masters (2002) degrees from EIU as a member of the Panthers swim team from 1996-2000. He was a two-time Midwest Classic Champion in the breaststroke and was named team captain as a senior in 2000.