Tim Fisher enters his third season as the head diving coach in the fall of 2025.
He was the recipient of the Patriot League Joe Suriano Men’s Diving Coach-of-the-Year award as well as the Patriot League Women’s Coach-of-the-Year accolade after the conclusion of the 2025 championship in which Blakeman Shaw and Mackenzie Kim swept all four league crowns. Navy divers accounted for a combined 11 berths in the championship finals at the meet.
Five Navy divers qualified for the NCAA Zone A Diving Championship, with Finn Gelbach advancing to the finals in both men’s springboard events.
He was named the Patriot League Joe Suriano Men’s Diving Coach of the Year following his inaugural 2024 league championship. Gelbach won both of the men’s boards, the Mids claimed five of the six podium places and accounted for nine of the 16 championship final qualifiers at the meet.
On the women’s side, Navy divers qualified for a combined six finals at the championship with Kim placing second in the one-meter event.
Additionally, six Mids qualified for the 2024 NCAA Zone A Diving Championship with Navy divers advancing to a total of five finals at the meet.
Fisher has run the Alexandria Dive Club since 2007 and the Montgomery Dive Club since 2022. In 2023, Montgomery Dive Club finished second in the country at USA Diving Jr. Nationals and won the men’s title. He has sent over 100 divers to NCAA Division I programs, most notably Anne Fowler (‘24) at Indiana and Conor Casey (‘22) at Stanford.
Fowler earned All-America honors in all four seasons, was the second-place finisher on the three-meter board at the 2023 and 2024 NCAA Championship, won three Big 10 Conference titles and was an Olympic Trials qualifier. Casey also qualified for the Olympic Trials, totaled five All-America accolades, was a finalist on the one-meter board at the 2021 NCAA Championship and won five Pacific 12 Conference crowns prior to graduating.
Fisher’s divers have amassed 24 USA Diving Junior National titles, won 14 medals at the Junior Pan American Games (2015-23), won three Senior National titles and earned medals at the FINA Grand Prix international competition. The current USA Diving Tier 3 squad includes four of his divers.
Fisher himself is a Gold Level mentor for the organization and has been part of national team coaching staffs for seven international competitions. A diver himself, he began his coaching career with the York Dive Club in Virginia from 1993-95 and later served as an assistant coach for the Patriot Dive Club in Fairfax, Va., from 2000-07.
Fisher served in the Army from 1991-97 and was stationed at Ft. Belvoir as an automated communications computer systems repair operator. He also has worked as a senior telecommunications engineer for Lumen Technologies since 2011.
