Josh Larcom Named Pitt Headvert Diving Coach

PITTSBURGH- Josh Larcom has been named head diving coach at Pitt, Director of Swimming & Diving Katie Kasprzak introduced Monday afternoon. Larcom involves Pitt after spending the previous 4 seasons as the top diving coach at Florida International University. His rent completes the management construction for Pitt Swimming & Diving together with Kasprzak and Ian Walsh, who was named head swimming coach earlier this month.

“We are beyond excited to welcome Josh Larcom to the Pitt family,” Kasprzak stated. “Josh brings an unbelievable wealth of expertise to our program. He is a real scholar of the game, who’s keen about studying, improvement and innovation. What excites me most about  Josh is how he approaches his student-athletes. His meticulous, person-first planning makes him precisely the coach our program wants. Josh’s expertise and imaginative and prescient complement these of Ian and me, and collectively we’re going to take Pitt Swimming & Diving to unbelievable new heights. The greatest is forward.

Larcom constructed Florida International’s diving program into one of many American Athletic Conference’s best. He was named AAC Co-Diving Coach of the Year in 2023-24 after guiding FIU to the convention title and training Paige Burrell to a meet-record 1-meter gold on the AAC Championships. Burrell went on to qualify for the NCAA Championships and have become the primary FIU diver in program historical past to compete on the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials. Larcom additionally coached Maha Gouda to a 14th-place end on platform on the NCAA Championships, incomes Second Team All-American honors, and led FIU to its best-ever diving end on the AAC Championships in 2024-25, gathering 4 medals throughout three occasions.

“I’m incredibly honored to be named head diving coach at Pitt,” Larcom stated. “I’d like to thank Katie for giving me the opportunity to carry on what she has built as she moves to her new role within the Swimming & Diving program. I’d also like to thank Randy Horner, Brien Moffitt, the FIU Swimming & Diving program and the rest of the university for helping me grow as a person and coach to help me get here. The Pitt Swimming & Diving program and the University of Pittsburgh are special and I felt that the minute I stepped on campus. I’m excited to build on the success of this program by upholding the strong culture that has been established and continuing to develop our student-athletes both in and out of the water to their highest potential. I can’t wait to get started and join the Pitt community.”

Prior to FIU, Larcom served as a diving graduate assistant at West Virginia, the place he helped qualify seven athletes for NCAA Zones and guided one to the NCAA Championships. He additionally served as head diving coach at Niagara University from 2018-20 and hung out as a volunteer assistant at Buffalo, serving to that program declare its first MAC Championship in 2020-21. At the membership degree, Larcom coached a program-record 5 divers to USA Junior Nationals at Wings Diving Club in Buffalo, N.Y.

A local of Deer Park, N.Y., Larcom competed collegiately at Canisius, incomes NCAA Zones qualification as a senior. He holds a bachelor’s diploma in well being and wellness and a bachelor’s diploma in psychology from Canisius, in addition to a grasp’s diploma in greater training administration from West Virginia. He is a USA Diving-certified competitors coach.