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Ted Everett

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Head Diving Coach
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Joining the Tigers in June 2022, Everett most recently spent three seasons at the University of Wyoming, where he won the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Diving Coach of the Year award in 2022 and the Mountain West Conference (MWC) Diving Coach of the Year Award in 2021.

2023-24 was a strong year for Everett and the Tigers' divers. Along with helping the women's team repeat as Ivy League Champions and Dual Meet Champions, he also helped the men win the Dual Meet Championship. Aidan Wang was named Ivy League Championships High Point Diver of the Meet after sweeping the diving events and was joined at the NCAA Championships by George Callanan, Taso Callanan and Luca Fassi. On the women's side, four Tigers advanced to the NCAA Zone Diving Championships (Maddie Seltzer, Francesca Noviello, Hanna Johnsson Stjernstrom and Charlotte Martinkus).

Everett made a quick impact at Princeton, helping the women's team win the 2023 Ivy League Championship and the men's program finish second. Under Everett's guidance, Charlotte Martinkus was named Ivy League Championships High Point Diver of the Meet after sweeping the diving events, before advancing to the NCAA Championships. In total, Everett helped send four women and three men to the NCAA Zone Championships in 2023, while three men also joined Martinkus at the NCAA Championships.

Along with winning WAC Coach of the Year, Everett is coming off a 2021-22 season at Wyoming where he helped Melissa Mirafuentes capture All-America honors on 3-meter and platform, get named MWC Championships Diver of the Meet, win the MWC title on platform, and sent six divers to the NCAA Zone E Championships on all three boards. Everett also had divers named Diver of the Week on six occasions in 2021-22.

At Wyoming, Everett guided divers to All-America honors five times, NCAA Championship qualification four times, NCAA Zone Championship qualification 13 times, Academic All-America honors three times, Diver of the Week honors 13 times, Conference Championship Diver of the Meet honors three times, Conference Event Championships three times, had nine conference championship finalists, and helped divers make it onto the all-time top-10 list 12 times.

Everett also had stints at the University of Utah and 1996-2000. The 2000 Mountain West Conference Diving Coach of the Year, he guided the Utes to two conference titles, and coached 16 PAC 12 Finalists, a PAC 12 Newcomer of the Year, plus 13 individual NCAA qualifiers, six NCAA All-Americans, and two Olympic Trials qualifiers. Everett was also the first coach to send two Utah divers to the NCAA Championships in the same year, and trained Utah’s first diving All-American.

Along with his work at the college level, Everett has also coached at the Utah Diving Club, which has produced 36 Junior National Qualifiers. Everett has also coached at Rose Bowl Aquatics and SLAP Diving, programs that produced four former athletes that represented the United States at the 2004 Olympics.