Meet Our Coaches

Coach Josh

 
Josh started his coaching career in Valparaiso, Indiana with a year round high school feeder program, assisting head coach Bill Chappo in May of 1990. There he helped coach many state finalists and two state champions until December of 1995.
 
In June of 1997 he came to Scottsdale to coach with CdS. Here he assisted 1996 Olympic coach Allan Spreen. From then until September 2001, he learned how to develop divers to compete at the Regional, Zone, and West National level in US Diving. During this time he also coached multiple high school state finalists and one state champion at Chaparral High School.
 
From September 2001 to October 2005, he coach CdS in partnership with Head Coach Joe Lyons. In this time he increased his coaching ability to developing West National finalists and Jr. National qualifiers.
 
In the fall of ’05 he left CdS to assist Marc Briggs at Sun Devil Divers in Tempe, AZ. Here he increased his knowledge on tower diving and developed two West National finalists.
 
December 2006 marked Josh’s return to CdS as Head Coach, where he is now developing National and International level divers.