Dave McKown - Head Diving Coach - Swimming Coaches

Dave McKown

Title:
Head Diving Coach
Email:
dmmckown@ncsu.edu

McKown comes to NC State in 2024 after serving as the head women’s diving coach at UCONN, where he led the program to three individual Big East Diving titles, seeing a sweep of the top three 3m places at the 2023 Big East Championships. He had six Zone A qualifiers over two years and one finalist in 2024. He also doubled the Huskies team diving points from 2022 to 2023.

Before his time at UCONN, McKown made a significant impact as the head diving coach at the University of Indianapolis. His leadership led to a historic sweep in the men's 1-meter national championship, a feat that included coaching the first national diving champion in school history.

In his tenure at Indianapolis, McKown developed 11 Division II All-Americans, 38 first-team All-Americans, and nine All-America Honorable Mention honors. In addition, McKown has produced 22 individual event conference champions and 12 GLVC Diver of the Year awards.

Upon his arrival at Indianapolis, coach McKown coached divers to break every UIndy men's and women's diving record, and he held three GLVC conference records.

From 2013 to 2022, McKown was the head satellite diving coach at the Indiana International School of Diving. He produced a junior national champion and 12 junior national finalists. He coached 17 J.O. Regional Gold medalists, laying the foundation for multiple future NCAA D-I, World Championship Trials, and Olympic trial qualifiers.

McKown was a Division I diver at Miami University (Ohio), where he graduated in 2010 with a degree in psychology. Throughout his diving and coaching career, McKown has been awarded the 2023 and 2024 Big East Women’s Diving Coach of the Year Award, the GLVC Paragon Award, and the Division II Men's Coach of the Year in back-to-back seasons, in 2020-21 and 2021-22.