Matt O’Neill Named Headvert Diving Coach

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University males’s and girls’s swimming and diving head coach Brent MacDonald introduced that Matt O’Neill will be part of the workers as the pinnacle diving coach.
 
“I am deeply grateful to (Vice President and Director of Athletics) Wren Baker and head coach Brent MacDonald for giving me this incredible opportunity to return to WVU and help lead this program into the future,” O’Neill stated. “As a career coach and lifelong Mountaineer, there is nothing more exciting than giving back to the program that shaped who I am today. I am eager to work with our student-athletes and staff in this world-class facility to continue building this program’s legacy.”
 
O’Neill has been at Harvard since 2019, main 15 particular person NCAA Championships qualifiers and three NCAA All-Americans for the Crimson. During this time, Harvard has gained 4 Ivy League males’s championships and one Ivy League ladies’s title. O’Neill has additionally coached Harvard divers to 57 Ivy League prime eight finishes and 5 Ivy League champions.
 
“It was clear from the beginning of this search that the best person to lead our diving program and provide it the stability it deserves was going to be Matt O’Neill,” MacDonald stated. “He is not only a coach with proven success but a true Mountaineer. With the tools we can provide at WVU, Matt is going to have our diving program at an elite level very soon.”
 
Prior to his time with Harvard, O’Neill was the pinnacle diving coach for Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, from 2015 to 2019. During his profession, O’Neill has coached 53 NCAA Zone Diving Championships qualifiers and over 40 College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Academic All-Americans.

 

O’Neill additionally served as the pinnacle diving coach for American Flyers Diving in Cleveland, main the staff to a fifth place total end on the 2018 USA Diving Junior National Championship.

 

O’Neill dove for the Mountaineers from 2008-12, incomes Second Team All-Big East recognition on the three-meter springboard in 2012. O’Neill additionally positioned second on 3-meter on the Big East Championships in 2012. He was additionally named essentially the most beneficial diver for WVU for the 2010-11 season.

 

During his freshman season, O’Neill set this system file on 3-meter with 329.78 factors. As a junior, he additionally positioned seventh on 1-meter and 3-meter on the Big East Championships. During his profession, O’Neill additionally held the 1-meter program file.

 

O’Neill earned a B.A. in athletic teaching training from West Virginia University.

 

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