Marzullo Joins Utes’ Swim & Dive Employees as Head Diving Coach

SALT LAKE CITY – Landon Marzullo has been employed as head males’s and girls’s diving coach for the University of Utah, it was introduced right now by Utah Swimming & Diving Head Coach Jonas Persson.

Marzullo joins the Utes’ program after spending the previous 5 seasons as head diving coach at Nebraska.

“Landon stood out throughout the entire search process,” Persson mentioned. “He brings a strong technical foundation, great energy on deck and a clear vision for developing divers at a high level. What impressed me most was his ability to connect with our student-athletes and his alignment with how we want to build this program moving forward. I’m confident he will make an immediate impact and help elevate our diving program within the Big 12 and the NCAA.”

 

In all, Marzullo brings 10 seasons of expertise as a collegiate diving coach, starting at UNLV (2016-19) the place he was the 2019 Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year, earlier than one yr at Wisconsin (2019-20) previous his five-year stint at Nebraska. He additionally spent one season as a volunteer assistant at Ohio State (2012-13) following a collegiate diving profession through which he earned 10 All-America honors.

 

“I feel extremely blessed and excited for the opportunity to lead the Utah diving program,” Marzullo mentioned. “Utah swimming and diving has a phenomenal legacy and I truly believe it’s one of the best programs in the nation. I can’t wait to bring my knowledge and experience to Salt Lake City to help continue building on their success. I want to thank everyone who has been involved in this process, especially Jonas Persson and the entire swim and dive staff. I would also like to wish Richard Marschner the best of luck in his new adventures. Finally, a special thank you to my wife Jennifer and daughter Mia; without their continued support none of this would be possible.”

 

Marzullo’s divers excelled for the Cornhuskers in 2025-26, led by Abby Baxter who completed eleventh within the 3-meter competitors and 18th on 1-meter on the NCAA Championships. Baxter additionally certified for the Pan-Am Aquatic Championships held in Medellin, Colombia, the place she helped Team USA safe a third-place end within the crew occasion by ending fifth on each springboard occasions.

 

Baxter claimed a Twentieth-place end on the 2025 NCAA Championships on three-meter as a sophomore after taking ninth on the NCAA Zone D Diving Championships. She added a Fifteenth-place end on the one-meter board on the Zone D meet. Kelsey Clairmont took Twentieth on platform on the 2024 NCAA Championships after opening her Husker profession by ending thirty fourth on the platform as a freshman on the 2023 NCAA Championships.

In his first season at Nebraska, Marzullo coached all three of his divers to the NCAA Zone {qualifications}, with Sara Troyer incomes a spot within the three-meter finals. Troyer collected 11 victories in 2021-22, whereas additionally accumulating a top-25 three-meter end at Winter Nationals. She additionally completed thirteenth on the one-meter board on the 2022 Big Ten Championships. Hallie Roman completed proper behind Troyer on one-meter at convention to attain extra crew factors with a 14th-place end. 

Marzullo led the boys’s and girls’s divers at Wisconsin in 2019-20 after constructing sturdy males’s and girls’s diving packages in three seasons at UNLV. He coached Rebel divers to 3 particular person convention titles in his three seasons in Las Vegas and helped his divers set 5 college information. In 2019 he was named the Mountain West Coach of the Year after guiding freshman Tazman Abramowicz to MW titles on the three-meter and platform occasions. Abramowicz additionally grew to become the primary Rebel males’s diver to qualify for the NCAA Diving Championships in additional than 30 years. In 2018, he coached the primary Rebel ladies’s diver (Myka Fielding) to the NCAA Championships for the primary time in additional than 20 seasons. Marzullo was additionally the pinnacle coach of the Rebel Diving Club from 2015 to 2019.

Following his one season as a volunteer assistant at Ohio State in 2012-13 Marzullo left to work as a excessive diver for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines from 2013 to 2015, performing a number of occasions per day on the three-meter, 10-meter and 17-meter platforms.

Marzullo, who was the Big Ten Diver of the Year at Indiana as a freshman in 2008, spent his first two collegiate seasons with the Hoosiers. He was additionally the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and the 2008 Big Ten Diver of the Championships after profitable convention titles on the one-meter and three-meter springboards and including a fourth-place end on platform. He additionally took fourth on the platform on the 2008 NCAA Championships to assert first-team All-America honors for the primary time in his profession, whereas including top-16 nationwide finishes on each the one- and three-meter boards. Marzullo took fifth on platform for the Hoosiers on the 2009 NCAA Championships.

Marzullo transferred to Florida State following his sophomore season in Bloomington. He was an All-ACC Diver for the Seminoles in each 2010 and 2011. As a senior, he was the runner-up in all three diving occasions on the ACC Championships, earlier than taking seventh on the three-meter board on the NCAA Championships to assert first-team All-America honors.  He closed his profession as a 10-time All-American general, together with 4 first-team All-America awards. He was additionally named to the 2011 World University Games Diving Team, incomes his greatest end (4th) on the three-meter synchronized occasion. He earned his bachelor’s diploma in criminology from FSU in May of 2012. 

Prior to his collegiate profession, Marzullo was a six-time junior nationwide champion and captured gold on platform on the 2005 Pan Am Junior Championships. He was a five-time U.S. National Team alternative, and he twice certified for the U.S. Olympic Diving Team Trials. He additionally completed second on the one-meter board on the 2011 U.S. National Championships.

Landon and his spouse, Jennifer, have a daughter, Mia.