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 (See Coach Spreen's bio below). 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 Junior and Senior National level divers.

Kates Bio is on the way!

Tony was a four-year letter winner in diving at Shadow Mountain High School and was subsequently inducted into the school Hall of Fame as well as being named “SMHS Male Athlete of the Year” as a senior. A two-time state champion in the one-meter event, Tony became a Junior National Champion his junior year and was named “Most Valuable Player” and earned “all-state” all four seasons. Additionally, Tony garnered “All-America” honors as a sophomore. While he was ranked sixth in country as a junior, he was also captain for his junior and senior seasons. Tony excelled academically as well as a member of the National Honor Society and Principal's Honor roll, he was also Vice President of the National Honor Society.

Tony attended Georgia Tech and was a four-year letter winner under Coach John Ames. As a sophomore became the third Tech diver in program history to garner All-ACC honors, finishing third on the one-meter board with a six-dive score of 345.95 at the ACC Championships. He dove his way into the finals of the three-meter diving event at the conference championship, sustaining an injury in the finals and managed to finish in eighth place. Tony broke the school record on the one-meter springboard with a score of 346.58 against Emory. He was named team's Shilo Ayalon Most Valuable Athlete Award winner. As a junior he set new Tech records on the one- and three-meter springboards with six dive scores of 374.50 and 387.95 at the Georgia Tech Invitational.

Coaching:
Started coaching with CDS in 2000 mainly bronze group and beginners. Coached for City of Scottsdale from 2000-2003. Was City of Scottsdale’s Diving Teams Coordinator in 2003 (ran all aspects of diving for the City). 2004-2007 Coached for Atlanta Diving Association, and assisted coaching with Georgia Tech under John Ames (was a 5th year assistant).