Lyle Robelot Season 2024-25

Lyle Robelot is entering his seventh season as an assistant coach for the swimming and diving program at LSU.

Robelot returned to Baton Rouge as an assistant coach in August 2018 after spending time as an assistant coach at Tulane.

“He brings so much energy, and he wants to see success here,” Head Swimming Coach Rick Bishop said. “He’s been here with the program, and just like many of our athletes, he’s hungry to make it happen.”

During the 2017-18 season with the Green Wave, Robelot helped the swimmers break or tie eight school records and earn six medals at the AAC Championships.

Before his time at Tulane, Robelot spent the 2016-17 campaign as a volunteer assistant at NC State, where both the men and women took home the ACC Championships.

From 2014-16, Robelot was an assistant coach at Nova Southeastern University. In his two seasons working with sprinters, Robelot helped the team break 33 of the program’s 38 records. Nine swimmers also won individual national championships.

Robelot was on staff with the Tigers from 2012-14 as a volunteer assistant, mainly in videography. The Baton Rouge native also served as the head swimming coach at St. Joseph’s Academy for two seasons, leading the Red Stickers to a state championship. He was also named the CCSL Women’s Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2011.

“It is like a dream come true to be back home,” said Robelot. “It’s still a little surreal to be on the deck where I swam summer league and where I started coaching college. It just means so much. It’s still kind of sinking in and feels a little surreal but now that we’re getting going and things are moving. It’s awesome.”

Robelot has earned two degrees from LSU: a bachelor’s in kinesiology and a master’s in exercise physiology. The Baton Rouge native is a McKinley High School graduate.