Jeff has been coaching Age group and Senior diving in the Cleveland area for 39 years.  He was the Head Men's and Women's Diving Coach at Cleveland State University for 20 seasons.  During his coaching career, Jeff has coached 34 High School All American divers, Numerous Age group national finalists, a National Champion and several Senior national finalists.  He has also coached two Olympic Games qualifiers, Three U.S. Senior National team members, 6 Collegiate All Americans, and a qualifier to the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.  Jeff most recently Coached the U.S. Senior National Team in Scotland & Spain.

 

Contact him at warnold@ameritech.net

           Associate Coach: Chris Dalman 

Diving experience:
Chris started his experience on the pool deck when he was still in diapers when his father Jeff Dalman was performing at the Sea World – Great American High Diving Team in Aurora . Chris then moved to the greater Seattle area at age 5 where he began diving himself under his father’s direction in the Rainier Dive Club. As the years passed, Chris then moved on to higher levels of competitive training and moved to the dive club, Emerald Diving in Federal Way , Washington under the coaching expertise of two time Olympian Kelly McKormick Robertson. Throughout his experience with Kelly, he competed at numerous national championships in age group receiving All American accolades and top finalist finishes. In 1999, just after 9^th grade, he competed at the FINA International Junior World Championships. 4-time All American in High School, 2- time Washington State Champion, and Senior National Finalist. Chris then became part of the Cleveland State University roster in 2005 where he claimed the Horizon League Conference 1^st place for two years. Then in 2007, for the first time in 30 years, he represented CSU at the NCAA National Championship to finish his collegiate career. Currently Chris holds the record in the 1 m event for Cleveland State .

Coaching Experience:
Chris has been teaching diving since about age 16. For the past ten years he has been involved with both training himself and training others in the artistic discipline of springboard and platform diving. Chris started his coaching with a small diving lessons program in 2000. In 2002 he continued his coaching experience at the High School level where in his first year had both girls and boys qualify and final at the state competition in Washington. With a brief Hiatus in coaching starting in 2005 while he was competing for Cleveland State , Chris came back to coaching High School in 2007 here in Ohio for Westlake High School . During the past 3 years at Westlake, Chris has had the honor to coach already skilled divers and brand new divers who would pull through the ranks and challenges of a short high school season and qualify for and final at the district and state tournaments.

 

Associate Coach:  John Ollila John coached High School diving at Berea High School for 30 years.  During his tenure his divers were finalists in Ohio State Diving competition on numerous occasions.  He has coached many High School All-Americans and is an inductee into the Berea High School Hall of Fame and the Ohio High School Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame.  As an AAU and U.S. Diving coach with the Berea Diving Club John has coached many National finalists.

Contact him at: jollila@msn.com