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Email: dmaiese@richmond.edu Diane Maiese was introduced as the Spiders' new diving coach in July 2008, joining head coach Matt Barany's staff after a successful five-year run in the same position at La Salle where she was named the A-10 Diving Coach of the Year five times. Maiese coached both the men's and women's teams for the Explorers from 2002 to 2007, winning the Men's Diving Coach of the Year Award four times and the Women's Coach of the Year once. In that time, she mentored men's diver Karo Isajan to four-consecutive Most Outstanding Diver awards from 2004-07. He was the A-10's 3-meter champion in each of those years. On the women's side, Katie Guilford was the 1-meter champion in 2007 and tabbed the A-10's Most Outstanding Diver that year. A native of Cherry Hill, N.J., Maiese graduated with a bachelor's degree in corporate fitness/exercise science in 1998 from The College of New Jersey where she was a four-time NCAA All-America selection and the 1997 NCAA Division III National Champion in the 1-meter. Prior to TCNJ, Diane dove at the University of Pittsburgh and was a Big East top 8 finisher on 1-meter, 3-meter and platform. She began her collegiate coaching career in 2001 as the head men's and women's diving coach at the University of Denver, spending one season there before taking the La Salle position. Maiese, a certified USA Diving coach, runs a year-round national level diving program here in Richmond. |
 
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