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03/08/2012
Utes continue to impress and improve
02/24/2012
All five Ute divers claimed top-15 spots
11/20/2011
Three Utes claim top-10 finishes.
Richard Marschner is in his second season as the diving coach at the University of Utah.
In 2010-11, Marschner coached Ellis Walters and Nelson Foo to Diver of the Week honors and All-Mountain West Conference selection. All five members of the Utah diving team grabbed top-eight finishes at the MWC Championships with four divers placing in the top-20 at the NCAA Zone Diving Championships.
While attending the University of Louisville, Marschner was a four-time Conference USA diving runner-up and qualified for the 2003 and 2004 NCAA Diving Zone qualifiers. He graduated from Louisville in 2005 with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Justice Administration.
Following graduation, Richard worked in multiple high diving shows around the world from 2005-2007 including places like Dalian, China; Metz, France and Lake George, NY. He performed multiple stunts including 70 foot high-dives, fire-dives and other stunts at various theme parks.
While still in college, Marschner spent his summers as the head diving coach at the Owl Creek Country Club, coaching kids ages five to 18. While coaching there, he was named Country Club Swim Association 2003 Dive Coach of the year. From 2004-2007, Marschner was the head coach of the high school group as well as an assistant coach for Junior Olympic group for the Louisville Area Diving club team. In late 2007, he was announced to be the first diving coach at the University of New Orleans since 1992 and was charged with restarting the dormant program. While at UNO, he coached two divers to the NCAA Zone D meet, had divers finish in the top-eight 11 times in two years at the Sun Belt Conference Championships, and two divers were on the Sun Belt Conference Honor Roll with the whole men's team having the eighth-highest GPA in the US.
Prior to coming to Utah, Marschner was the head diving coach at UNO as well as for the Green Acres Country Club in Metairie, La.
