Kelly LaCroix

Title

Diving Coach
Email

wsudiving@aol.com

Updated 7-2-2020

Enters her 26th season as diving coach at WSU (in fall of 2020)
Four-time Female Diving Coach of the Meet at the NCAA Championships (2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017)
Named to the NCAA Division 2 Swimming and Diving Committee as the diving representative in 2013
Led the Warriors to two national diving titles in 2013
118 All-American divers under LaCroix since 1994, including six National Champions

Kelly LaCroix enters her 26th season directing the WSU diving program in the in the fall of 2020. LaCroix served as diving coach from 1993-97, and returned in 1999.

During her tenure, LaCroix has guided 118 divers to All-American status (see list below), including Erika Barczak for four consecutive seasons (2005-08) along with Cayce Bolt (2007-10), Cassie Chetosky (2008-11), Carly Sevald (2010-13) and Elizabeth Rawlings (2014-17). In 2005, Barczak became the first WSU All-American female diver since Susan Gierschick in 1986. Chetosky became WSU's first female national diving champion in 2010, and Carly Sevald won the three-meter board in 2012 as well as being named Female Diver of the Meet.

Wayne State won two national diving titles in 2013. Paige Kortman and Dylan Szegedi each won national championships in the one-meter diving competition.

LaCroix is a four-time Female Diving Coach of the Meet at the NCAA Championships (2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017).

In 2014, Kortman finished second on the three-meter board, while Elizabeth Rawlings placed third and Alex Geddis-McCririe finished sixth. On the one-meter board Kortman finished second, Geddis-McCririe placed seventh and Rawlings finished eighth. Szegedi placed fourth in the one-meter diving competition and second on the three-meter board.

Szegedi won the three-meter board in 2015 and finished third on the one-meter board. Rawlings set a school record (499.40) on the one-meter board and finished second. Rawlings won a national title on the three-meter board with a national record score of 555.70, while Geddis-McCririe placed seventh.

In addition to her duties at the collegiate level, LaCroix has also coached at numerous high schools and the Western Aquatics Club in the summer over the last 32 years.

She was also named to the NCAA Division 2 Swimming and Diving Committee as the diving representative in July 2013.

LaCroix received her bachelor's degree in marketing from Eastern Michigan University in 1988. She and her husband, Paul, reside in Taylor. The couple has two adult children, Rachael and Erik.

WSU All-America Divers Under LaCroix

National Champions: Men's One-Meter - 1; Men's Three-Meter - 1; Women's One-Meter 1; Women's Three-Meter - 3

First Team All-Americans (Top Eight): Men's One-Meter - 10; Men's Three-Meter - 14; Women's One-Meter 19; Women's Three-Meter - 25

Honorable Mention All-Americans (Ninth-16th): Men's One-Meter - 15; Men's Three-Meter - 13; Women's One-Meter 11; Women's Three-Meter - 11

1994
Damian Pulliam
One-Meter Diving
Three-Meter Diving

1995
Jason Kupser
One-Meter Diving (Honorable Mention)
Three-Meter Diving (Honorable Mention)

1996
Jason Kupser
One-Meter Diving (Honorable Mention)
Three-Meter Diving (Honorable Mention)

Michael Samfilippo
One-Meter Diving (Honorable Mention)
Three-Meter Diving (Honorable Mention)

1997
Jason Kupser
One-Meter Diving (Honorable Mention)
Three-Meter Diving (Honorable Mention)

2001
Chris Totten
One-Meter Diving (4th)
Three-Meter Diving (6th)

2002
Chris Totten
One-Meter Diving (5th)
Three-Meter Diving (4th)

2003
Chris Totten
Three-Meter Diving (8th)

Brandon Peaney
One-Meter Diving (16th)

2005
Erika Barczak
One-Meter Diving (9th)
Three-Meter Diving (8th)

2006
Erika Barczak
One-Meter Diving (13th)
Three-Meter Diving (6th)

2007
Erika Barczak
One-Meter Diving (14th)

Cayce Bolt
One-Meter Diving (15th)
Three-Meter Diving (6th)

Dan Fleming
One-Meter Diving (16th)

Venessa Torres
Three-Meter Diving (12th)

Chris Totten
One-Meter Diving (10th)
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

2008
Erika Barczak
One-Meter Diving (6th)
Three-Meter Diving (4th)

Cayce Bolt
One-Meter Diving (5th)
Three-Meter Diving (5th)

Cassie Chetosky
One-Meter Diving (13th)
Three-Meter Diving (7th)

2009
Cayce Bolt
One-Meter Diving (3rd)
Three-Meter Diving (6th)

Cassie Chetosky
One-Meter Diving (7th)
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

Mike Elliott
One-Meter Diving (10th)
Three-Meter Diving (8th)

Meghan Jaworski
Three-Meter Diving (11th)

2010
Cayce Bolt
One-Meter Diving (2nd)
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

Cassie Chetosky
One-Meter Diving (3rd)
Three-Meter Diving (NATIONAL CHAMPION - 503.30)

Mike Elliott
Three-Meter Diving (9th)

Jeff Grant
Three-Meter Diving (16th)

Meghan Jaworski
Three-Meter Diving (13th)

Carly Sevald
One-Meter Diving (11th)
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

Lena Wileczek
One-Meter Diving (6th)
Three-Meter Diving (8th)

2011
Cassie Chetosky
One-Meter Diving (4th)
Three-Meter Diving (5th)

Darrin Driesenga
One-Meter Diving (14th)
Three-Meter Diving (11th)

Jeff Grant
Three-Meter Diving (13th)

Paige Kortman
One-Meter Diving (5th)
Three-Meter Diving (9th)

Emily Mitzelfeld
Three-Meter Diving (10th)

Carly Sevald
One-Meter Diving (7th)
Three-Meter Diving (6th)

2012
Darrin Driesenga
One-Meter Diving (14th)
Three-Meter Diving (13th)

Paige Kortman
One-Meter Diving (7th)
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

Emily Mitzelfeld
One-Meter Diving (8th)
Three-Meter Diving (8th)

Carly Sevald (NCAA Female Diver of the Meet)
One-Meter Diving (3rd)
Three-Meter Diving (NATIONAL CHAMPION - 503.40)

Dylan Szegedi
One-Meter Diving (9th)
Three-Meter Diving (12th)

2013
Darrin Driesenga
One-Meter Diving (7th)
Three-Meter Diving (7th)

Alex Geddis-McCririe
One-Meter Diving (11th)
Three-Meter Diving (12th)

Jeff Grant
One-Meter Diving (11th)
Three-Meter Diving (12th)

Paige Kortman (NCAA Female Diver of the Meet)
One-Meter Diving (NATIONAL CHAMPION - 468.60)
Three-Meter Diving (2nd)

Emily Mitzelfeld
One-Meter Diving (9th)
Three-Meter Diving (10th)

Carly Sevald
One-Meter Diving (4th)
Three-Meter Diving (5th)

Dylan Szegedi
One-Meter Diving (NATIONAL CHAMPION - 529.65)
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

Kevin White
One-Meter Diving (15th)
Three-Meter Diving (11th)

2014
Paige Kortman
One-Meter Diving (2nd)
Three-Meter Diving (2nd)

Holly Krill
Three-Meter Diving (16th)

Alex Geddis-McCririe
One-Meter Diving (7th)
Three-Meter Diving (6th)

Adam Littell
One-Meter Diving (16th)
Three-Meter Diving (14th)

Elizabeth Rawlings
One-Meter Diving (8th)
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

Dylan Szegedi
One-Meter Diving (4th)
Three-Meter Diving (2nd)

2015
Elizabeth Rawlings
One-Meter Diving (2nd)
Three-Meter Diving (NATIONAL CHAMPION - 555.70)

Alex Geddis-McCririe
One-Meter Diving (11th)
Three-Meter Diving (7th)

Dylan Szegedi
One-Meter Diving (3rd)
Three-Meter Diving (NATIONAL CHAMPION - 587.65)

2016
Elizabeth Rawlings
One-Meter Diving (15th)
Three-Meter Diving (2nd)

Alex Geddis-McCririe
One-Meter Diving (9th)
Three-Meter Diving (12th)

2017
Elizabeth Rawlings (GLIAC Female Diver of the Year)
One-Meter Diving (3rd)
Three-Meter Diving (2nd)

Mia Teifer
One-Meter Diving (4th)

2018
Amanda Hurchalla
Three-Meter Diving (11th)

Mia Teifer
One-Meter Diving (11th)
Three-Meter Diving (13th)

2019
Amanda Hurchalla
One-Meter Diving (5th)
Three-Meter Diving (2nd)

Mia Teifer
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

2020*
Amanda Hurchalla
Three-Meter Diving (3rd)

*Championships cut short due to COVID-19