Jeff Warrick enters his 28th season as the head diving coach at Iowa State in 2025-26. Since joining the program in 1998, Warrick has coached 16 Cyclone divers to 51 All-Big 12 honors, including 2005 conference champion on platform Hillary Nichols.

Warrick has coached two Iowa State divers to the NCAA Championships in Tien Tran during the 2009-10 season and Hillary Nichols in 2004-05. Warrick has led at least one diver to the NCAA Zone Diving Championships in each of his 27 years at Iowa State, extending the school’s overall streak to 34 consecutive seasons. Under Warrick, 34 divers have made a combined 69 appearances at Zones.

2024-25 marked the fifth time in Warrick’s tenure that Iowa State diving has sent four divers to the Zone Diving Championships. Kate Mitchell and Ally Blumenfeld became three-time qualifiers while freshmen Maggie Bendell and Abby Tollefson made their first appearances at the Zone Diving Championships. In 2023-24, Iowa State sent three divers to Zones, the eighth time in school history and fourth under Warrick.

2022-23 marked the second time in program history that Iowa State sent four divers to Zones in back-to-back seasons and also added All-Big 12 Honors in 1-meter diving, 3-meter diving, and platform diving.

2021-22 marked the seventh time in program history, third under Warrick, that Iowa State qualified three divers for the NCAA Zone Diving Championships, the effort was led by Michelle Schlossmacher Smith, who earned All-Big 12 honors on 3-meter and platform and took down Tran’s 13-year old school record on 3-meter with a score of 348.83 against Kansas on Senior Day and set a new Beyer Pool record on platform with a 249.25 against TCU. Schlossmacher Smith, Jayna Misra, Joscelyn Buss and Lauren Kimball combined for a school-record 48 NCAA Zone cuts across the season.

In 2020-21, Scholossmacher Smith became the fifth Cyclone in program history to advance to the ‘A’ final on all three boards at the Big 12 Championships.

At the 2017 Big 12 Championship meet, Warrick helped send Cyclone divers to finals on six occasions that resulted in four All-Big 12 distinctions, led by a pair of First-Team honors for Julie Dickinson. For the second time in team history and second year in a row, three Iowa State divers reached the medal stand on the platform. The Cyclones’ success on the boards at the meet led to Warrick being named the Big 12 Championship Women’s Diving Coach of the Meet for the second time in three years.

Elyse Brouillette reached the medal stand in all three diving events at the 2016 Big 12 Championship, extending her streak to 10-consecutive finals appearances in the conference meet dating back to 2013. Brouillette ended her Cyclone career as the fifth diver in program history to reach Zones all four years and as a top-three diver for each event in the Iowa State record book. Brouillette’s trio of Big 12 Diver of the Week awards in the 2015-16 season made her the first five-time winner of conference weekly awards in program history.

During the 2009-10 season, Tran earned All-Big 12 honors on 1-meter, 3-meter and platform at the conference championship meet. Her score of 271.75 during platform finals gave her a second school record to go with her then-3-meter school record set in 2008. Tran’s success continued into the postseason where she became the first Cyclone since Nichols in 2005 to qualify for the NCAA Championships and finished an Iowa State-best 19th in the platform event.

Warrick’s coaching saw four Iowa State divers earn trips to the NCAA Zone Diving Championships in March 2011, the first time in Warrick’s tenure four made it and the first time four Cyclones earned a ticket since 1988. Sarah Nelson led the group at Zones with a 17th place finish on 1-meter.

In 2005, Nichols finished fifth on the platform, seventh on the 3-meter and eighth on the 1-meter at Zones to become the first Cyclone diver to qualify for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships since Janet Lahti in 1987. She finished 33rd on the 1-meter and 25th on both 3-meter and platform.

Warrick came to Iowa State following three years as the head diving coach at West High School in Davenport, Iowa. From 1995-97, he coached several Falcon divers to the state meet, including the third-place finisher at the 1997 state championships. He also taught math classes at West High.

Warrick, who also served as assistant coach of the Bettendorf Diving Club from 1996-98, received his bachelor’s degree in secondary mathematics education from Indiana University in 1994. While at Indiana, he was a member of the Hoosiers’ diving team. As a diver, he was a three-time Big Ten finalist, a qualifier for the 1992 NCAA Diving Championships, a participant in the 1994 Olympic Sports Festival and a finalist at the 1994 United States Senior Outdoor Championships.

In 1992, he earned honorable mention All-America recognition on the platform and was bestowed the Jack D. Tichenor Award, recognizing the Indiana student-athlete earning the highest grade-point average.

At Indiana, Warrick not only excelled on the diving board, but also in the classroom. He was named a GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American in 1992, a three-time Scholastic Achievement Award recipient and earned the Big Ten Scholar-Athlete Award three times.

During his time at Indiana, Warrick also worked with divers in the summer season at the Indiana Diving Academy in Bloomington, Ind., from 1990-95.

Warrick and his wife, Kathy, reside in Ames and have two children, a daughter (Elyse) and son (Ean).

Name	Title	Email Address	Phone
Matt Leach	Head Swimming Coach	leach@iastate.edu
Jeff Warrick	Head Diving Coach	jwarrick@iastate.edu	515-294-3185
Morgan McGhee	Assistant Swimming Coach	mhark@iastate.edu

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