Seth O’Dea – Girls’s Swimming & Diving Coach

Seth O’Dea was employed Aug. 4, 2025 to be the top diving coach at Colorado State.

 

For O’Dea, it’s his first full-time faculty put up, although he has served in an interim and assistant’s position prior to now. He joins the Rams after three profitable seasons with the Montgomery Dive Club – the biggest junior program within the nation – the place he has labored with divers who’ve captured 10 Junior National Championships.

 

His Montgomery group positioned second total at Junior Nationals in 2023, working to develop performers who then proceeded to earn faculty alternatives throughout all ranges. While working with Junior National divers for Montgomery, he additionally served as an assistant coach with the Alexandria Dive Club, serving to divers in any respect ranges.

 

He served as a graduate assistant dive coach at his alma mater, South Dakota, after ending his profession with the Coyotes as the college accomplished a search to fill the open dive coach place. In the previous three seasons, he has assisted with the collegiate packages at George Washington and Navy.

 

As a collegian, O’Dea began his profession at UNC-Wilmington, the place he was an All-CAA performer after inserting second on the 3-meter springboard and was the very best scoring freshman diver on the CAA Championship meet. He continued his success at South Dakota, performing properly for the 2021 group which received the Summit Leage title for the primary time in class historical past, inserting second on the 3-meter and third on the 1-meter. A two-time group captain, he was voted the toughest working male teammate for the 2020-21 season, incomes tutorial honors throughout his time as a Coyote.

 

He earned each his bachelor’s and MBA in administration whereas at South Dakota, graduating in 2022.