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Women's Swimming & Diving
- Title:
- Diving Coach
- Phone:
- 401/863-1918
- Email:
- james_pyrch@brown.edu
- Joined Brown:
- Fourth Season
Jim Pyrch completed his fourth season as the Brown men's and women's diving coach in 2018-19.Â
In his first year at College Hill, Pyrch guided a men's diver to NCAA Zone Diving Championships, where the student-athlete placed 22nd in the 1-meter and 32nd in the 3-meter.
Pyrch joined the Bears after spending seven seasons at the University of North Texas as the Mean Green's diving coach.Â
Under Pyrch's tutelage, North Texas boasted four conference finalists scoring over 100 points, three NCAA Zone Diving qualifiers, and a Scholar-Athlete of the Year selection. The Mean Green has held the top-10 program scores and has received 16 Conference USA Diver of the Week selections in Pyrch's seven seasons in Denton. Pyrch also coached North Texas' most successful diver, Catherine Johnson, who claimed three silver and two bronze medals in a three-year span at the Conference USA Championships.
Prior to North Texas, Pyrch boasted a tenure with Yale as the Bulldogs' diving coach, where he coached two NCAA qualifiers in 2002, as well as a trio of Ivy League champion divers in consecutive seasons from 2001-03.
On the national stage, Pyrch was also a six-time U.S. National Diving Coach, participating in competitions with the squad in Germany, China, Russia, and Sweden.
Pyrch also held coaching stints at Macalester College and his alma mater, Southern Connecticut State, where he was a two-time Division II Diving Coach of the Year (1987, 1993).
