Andy Robins was made the Florida Southern’s head swimming coach in August 2018 and has 25 years of collegiate coaching experience on his resume. Robins joined the Mocs as the fifth head coach in program history after three seasons as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech, and more than 20 seasons at Florida State University.

In his first year at Florida Southern, Robins led the Moccasins to a third-place finish in the Sunshine State Conference Championships on both the men’s and women’s side and had 16 of his swimmers (10 men and six women) earn spots at the NCAA Division II National Finals. Altogether, 14 of them earned at least one All-American certificate, led by senior Matthew Holmes, who was the individual national champion in the 400-IM and runner-up in the 200-IM. The men’s team finished 14th in the finals and the women were 30th.

Since his first year, Robins has continued to develop success at Florida Southern as he won SSC Men's Coach of the Year in the 2021-22 season after bringing the SSC men's title to Lakeland for the first time since 2016. Robins also coached Ludovico Viberti, who became FSC's 27th individual national champion with an NCAA title in the 100 breaststroke ahead of his SSC Freshman of the Year award and Moccasin fifth-place finish for the men's team at the NCAA tournament. Two years later, Robins coached FSC's 28th individual national champion as Kyle Micallef won the 50 freestyle (the first such championship in program history) in the 2024 NCAA Swimming Championships setting program and league records. The 2021-22 season was the best for Robins as the men had 33 All-American honors and the women with six All-American nods, both best for Robins and matching his record for the women in his first year with the Mocs. 

At the conference level, Robins coached four of his women’s swimmers to SSC individual championships with Katie Moore winning the 200-freestyle, Haley DeGrace taking the 200-breaststroke,  Jazzy Hoffmann a 100-freestyle winner, and Alizee Pelletier winning the 200 breaststroke in 2024. A total of 21 gold medals for the men with seven different men, Holmes, Brandon Dyck, Kyle Micaleef, Luka Planinc, Viberti, Matteo Zampese, Brandon Wilson and Miguel Bernotti title winners. The Moccasins ended up with seven All-SSC swimmers in Robins’ first season, with Holmes voted the SSC Men’s Swimmer-of-the-Year, with a total of 23 All-SSC Team selections among the men's and women's teams while with FSC. 

The Moccasins also excelled academically under Robins, with the women and men recognized by the CSCAA as Scholar All-America Teams from 2019-2023. With several named to the CSCAA Scholar All-American team, Mocs have been represented in each of the SSC Commissioner's Honor Roll lists and D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award selections. In the 2022-23 season, Robins saw Zampese named the CSC Divison II Team Member of the Year and the SSC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The following year, Micallef was also named the CSC Division II Team Member of the Year, as FSC won back-to-back awards since the inception of the academic honor.

Robins announced his retirement after the 2024-25 season, ending as the longest tenured swimming coach in program history and finishing with the most dual meet wins in men's swimming program history. 

Before coming to Florida Southern, Robins had spent the three previous seasons as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech with a focus on sprinters. While there, in 2018 he helped junior Iris Wang become the Yellow Jackets’ first female swimmer in 10 years to reach the Division I National Championships as she re-wrote the school record book. On the men’s side, Robins guided Youssef Hammoud all the way to the NCAA Championships in 2016 as a qualifier in three events while posting some of the best times in school history. One year later, several other men posted times that placed them among the all-time top-10 in Georgia Tech history, and in 2018, the Yellow Jacket men’s team finished the regular season ranked No. 25 in the country with four NCAA qualifiers.

Prior to his time in Atlanta, as the associate head coach at Florida State, Robins helped All-American Paul Murray set a new ACC record in the 50-free after capturing a gold medal in 2014. That same year, another of his sprinters on the women’s side, Tiffany Oliver, became the first Seminole to win back-to-back ACC sprint titles. Altogether in his 23 years at the Division I level, Robins directed the training of 32 swimmers who won ACC individual championships (10 women and 22 men, many of whom won multiple titles), 38 All-Americans, and 53 NCAA Championship qualifiers.

Robins’ coaching experience has not been limited to the college ranks. He was head coach at Leon High School in Tallahassee from 1985-90, and served on the coaching staff at Area Tallahassee Aquatic Club from May 1985 to October 1997. He was promoted to head age group coach in 1987, and took over the head coaching duties for ATAC in 1993. While there, Robins was responsible for overseeing all aspects of a USA Swimming program of more than 200 swimmers, ranging from novice to Olympic level. He led the club to a top-10 finish at the 1996 Junior National Championships.

In addition to his coaching duties, Robins has been active with Florida Swimming, serving multiple terms in different capacities, including Administrative Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, and head coach of the Florida All-Star Team at the 1990 and ’91 Southern Zone Championships. He is also a certified coach with USA Swimming.

Robins graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1983 with a degree in psychology and received a master’s degree in science education from Florida State in 1987. While in college, Robins swam both the backstroke and distance freestyle events and set the school record in the 1,650-freestyle while also serving as team captain.

Robins and his wife Karen have three daughters and one son, Beth, Kurt, Jenna, and Annemarie.