{"id":621601,"date":"2025-08-27T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=621601"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:20:42","slug":"west-virginia-hires-matt-oneill-as-head-diving-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/west-virginia-hires-matt-oneill-as-head-diving-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Hires Matt O\u2019Neill as Head Diving Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Virginia Hires Matt O\u2019Neill as Head Diving Coach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>West Virginia has hired <strong>Matt O\u2019Neill<\/strong> as the head diving coach, returning to his alma mater, the school announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill has spent the last six years at Harvard, powering the Crimson to 15 NCAA qualifiers and three All-Americans. Harvard has won four Ivy League men\u2019s championship and one women\u2019s Ivy League title, with five Ivy diving champions and 57 top-eight finishers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply grateful to (Vice President and Director of Athletics) Wren Baker and head coach Brent MacDonald for giving me this incredible opportunity to return to WVU and help lead this program into the future,\u201d O\u2019Neill said <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/news\/2025\/8\/23\/mens-swimming-diving-matt-o-neill-named-head-diving-coach.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a university statement<\/a>. \u201cAs a career coach and lifelong Mountaineer, there is nothing more exciting than giving back to the program that shaped who I am today. I am eager to work with our student-athletes and staff in this world-class facility to continue building this program\u2019s legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/big-12-swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big 12 Swimming News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>O\u2019Neill was previously the head coach at Case Western Reserve from 2015-19. While in Cleveland, he was the head coach of American Flyers Diving, which finished fifth at the 2018 USA Diving Junior National Championships.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill dove at West Virginia from 2008-12. Voted the program\u2019s most valuable diver in his junior season, he finished as the runner-up at the Big East Championships in 3-meter as a senior in 2012. He set the program record on 3-meter as a freshman and also held the 1-meter school mark. He finaled on both springboards at Big Easts in 2011. 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