Tom Stebbins
Los Angeles Dive Club Program Director/Head Coach
Yale, BA Psychology, 1996
(310) 387-5565
[email protected]
Tom enters his 27th season as the head coach of the UCLA Women's Diving Team, a program that has had much success since his tenure in Westwood began. 20 different Bruins have secured 31 All-American Honors in 22 different NCAA qualifying years. The team has won seven Pac-12 Titles, six Newcomer of the Year awards, three Coach of the Year awards, and one of each: NCAA Diver and Coach of the Year award (2019). Before coming to UCLA, Stebbins served as Head Diving Coach at Fordham University, where he coached two-time senior national qualifier Paul Delo, who won two Atlantic-10 titles each on the one-meter and three-meter (1997 and 1998).
Stebbins was a four year letter-winner at Yale University, a three-time NCAA Zone qualifier and a four-time All-Ivy League selection. While diving at Yale, he helped lead his team to the 1993 Ivy League co-title. In 1996 he won the Heaton High Point Award and was named the recipient of the Phil Moriarty MVP Prize. Stebbins graduated from Yale in 1996 with a degree in Psychology. A native of Connecticut, he now resides with his family in El Segundo.
The Stebbins Philosophy: "Luck sits squarely at the intersection of hard work and opportunity." Coach Stebbins believes that each person is in total control of creating there own luck. The LA Dive Club program stresses the need for the individual to be accountable to themselves, their teammates, their sport, and their studies. Sport challenges individuals to be goal setters, plan implementers, and to develop resilience in the pursuit and achievement of these goals. Diving is an amazing way to work through fears, develop self-efficacy, and experience the amazing successes that daily dedicated efforts provide. The staff goal is to guide all of our athletes through this development.
Any program questions or concerns should be directed to Tom at [email protected].
TODD MULZET
Associate Head Coach, JO Team
Todd Mulzet has been involved in diving for over 30 years, first as a nationally-ranked diver, and for the past 20 years as a top diving coach. Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Mulzet attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received a B.S. in Mathematics and was three-time Big East conference diver of the year. A finalist at U.S. senior nationals, and a current masters world record holder. He began his career as a diving coach at Emory University (1990-92). Since then Mulzet has been head coach at Houston’s Cougar Diving Club (2007-10); Diving Coach Men and Women’s Swimming and Diving at the University of California, Berkeley (2010-16); development coach with Stanford Diving Club (2016-18), and spent the past six years as an Associate Head Coach with the Mission Viejo Nadadores. In his six seasons at Berkeley, he was a member of the coaching staff that won six NCAA team titles at the Division I swimming and diving national championships. There he coached three-time all-American Kahley Rowell, a Mission Viejo alum, who finished out her career as a United States Olympic Trials finalist on 10m platform in 2016.
As head coach of Cougar Diving Club, Mulzet coached divers to two individual junior national titles and three individual age-group national titles. He was also selected as an assistant coach for the 2009 Junior Pan Am Games with two divers earning spots on the team. Mulzet has trained under a number of world class coaches, including Julian Krug (University of Pittsburgh), Dick Kimble (University of Michigan, USA Olympic coach), and Jane Figueiredo (Great Britain Olympic coach, 2017 FINA Coach of Year). Prior to becoming a diving coach, Mulzet held positions in marketing or finance at AT&T, Ameriprise Financial Services and Universal Music/Geffen Records.
Todd will be focused on the development of our Junior National Travel Team members, but will have influence over the programming of our entire team. Todd is a great resource and an amazing coach. We are very lucky to have him!
Todd Mulzet has been involved in diving for over 30 years, first as a nationally-ranked diver, and for the past 20 years as a top diving coach. Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Mulzet attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received a B.S. in Mathematics and was three-time Big East conference diver of the year. A finalist at U.S. senior nationals, and a current masters world record holder. He began his career as a diving coach at Emory University (1990-92). Since then Mulzet has been head coach at Houston’s Cougar Diving Club (2007-10); Diving Coach Men and Women’s Swimming and Diving at the University of California, Berkeley (2010-16); development coach with Stanford Diving Club (2016-18), and spent the past six years as an Associate Head Coach with the Mission Viejo Nadadores. In his six seasons at Berkeley, he was a member of the coaching staff that won six NCAA team titles at the Division I swimming and diving national championships. There he coached three-time all-American Kahley Rowell, a Mission Viejo alum, who finished out her career as a United States Olympic Trials finalist on 10m platform in 2016.
As head coach of Cougar Diving Club, Mulzet coached divers to two individual junior national titles and three individual age-group national titles. He was also selected as an assistant coach for the 2009 Junior Pan Am Games with two divers earning spots on the team. Mulzet has trained under a number of world class coaches, including Julian Krug (University of Pittsburgh), Dick Kimble (University of Michigan, USA Olympic coach), and Jane Figueiredo (Great Britain Olympic coach, 2017 FINA Coach of Year). Prior to becoming a diving coach, Mulzet held positions in marketing or finance at AT&T, Ameriprise Financial Services and Universal Music/Geffen Records.
Todd will be focused on the development of our Junior National Travel Team members, but will have influence over the programming of our entire team. Todd is a great resource and an amazing coach. We are very lucky to have him!
Laura Fisher - Assistant Coach, Development and Lesson Teams
Laura begins her second year with the Los Angeles Dive Club. Laura is a sophomore and a current UCLA Diving Team Member. Laura is also a LADC alum! Laura will primarily work with our lesson group, but may step in as needed in other roles.