Bobby Goeltz has amassed a wealth of knowledge in his 33 years of head coaching experience.  He begins his 23rd season with the Bengals after previously serving 10 years in a similar capacity at the University of Maryland.  His all-time career record as a head coach is 551-662 (45.4 percent).  Goeltz’s all-time men’s career record is 332-343 (49.1 percent) and his women’s career record is 219-319 (40.7percent).

He has led the Bengal men to a 183-251 (42.1 percent) Big Sky record. Goeltz has finished second in the Big Sky four times (1997, 1999, 2003, 2004) and third six times.  Goeltz has had 19 of his male players named all-conference during his career. His players have earned first team honors 20 times, second team five times and honorable mention five times.  He has also had 39 of his men’s players named to the all-academic team.  Goeltz has had three men’s players earn Big Sky Most Valuable Player including three-time selection Mike Castrilli.  

Goeltz has led the Bengal women to a 135-242 (35.8 percent) conference record. He has placed second in the Big Sky Conference three times (1991, 1992 and 1996) and third four times.  He has had 19 female athletes named all-conference. His athletes have been named first team 16 times and second team and honorable mention seven times each. Goeltz has had 30 of his women’s players named to the all-academic team.  He has had one female player, Rebecca Smith, named Big Sky MVP in 1992.

During the 2012 season, Goeltz began rebuilding his program. Goeltz’s player Laura Porras became the first female athlete to earn all-conference second team honors since 2004. His men broke an 11-match losing streak to Montana State, handing the Bobcats their first loss of the season and the men were just one point shy of returning to the conference tournament for the first time since 2006. Both teams were named 2012 Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic teams and players Madeline Ryan, Marian Tangarife, Zamira Vasquez, Dan Buckingham, Andres Coello and Austin Miller were named ITA Scholar Athletes.

His athletes have been highly successful in the classroom. At ISU, every senior he coached has graduated, while only one at Maryland failed to graduate. He has had three men’s players and a women’s player named Big Sky Scholar Athlete, including one player who earned an NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship.  At Maryland, his tennis teams were always among the top teams academically, and he coached two Rhodes Scholar candidates, one ACC Academic Athlete of the Year, 51 All-ACC Honor Roll Award winners, a Magna Cum Laude graduate in architecture and a state of Maryland Chancellor’s Scholar.

In 2003, Goeltz earned his first Big Sky Coach of the Year when he led the Idaho State men to a second-place finish in the Big Sky Conference and had three First Team All-Big Sky honorees. Malcolm Swan set ISU records for singles wins in a season and combined wins in the process. The women went 13-8 and tied for third in Big Sky, with two players earning All-Big Sky recognition.

Two of his notable ISU players were Omer Rashid and Mike Castrilli. Rashid was an NCAA Academic All-American and was the winner of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Castrilli was the only individual to be selected MVP of the Big Sky tennis championships for three consecutive years. In 1993, that duo became the first to represent ISU in doubles at the NCAA Tennis Championships.  On the women’s side Goeltz led the Bengals to two Big Sky singles champions in 1991, Rebecca Smith and Story Hurst.  In the same year the Bengals had thier second straight Big Sky Doubles Champions with Story Hurst and Christy Texeira earning the honor at the number two spot.

Prior to Idaho State, Goeltz was the head coach at Maryland, the second tennis coach in the university’s history.  His men’s teams compiled a 145-85 record and the women’s teams were 81-71. He coached several Atlantic Coast Conference champions, won several prestigious tournaments including the National Invitational Tournament for the men’s tennis championship in 1985, and his men’s team was ranked 16th nationally in 1986.

He was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year in 1984 and was inducted into the Washington Tennis Hall of Fame in the same year.  In 2004, he was selected to the NCAA men’s and women’s Division I Tennis Championships Committee.  

Goeltz graduated from Princeton in 1970 after leading the Tigers as the No. 1 varsity men’s tennis player from 1967-70.  As a player he was an Ivy League Champion from 1967-70 and was an All-American tennis athlete in 1970.