After spending the 2020-2021 season without a volunteer diving coach, the University of Wisconsin has hired Yahya Radman as the school’s new head diving coach.
Radman’s last stop was at NC State, where he served as the head diving coach since 2014. The program announced prior to the NCAA Championships that the school and Radman “mutually agreed to part ways” at the end of the season.
The school’s former head coach Landon Marzullo resigned at the end of the 2019-2020 season when his wife got a new job elsewhere.
Last season, the program’s diving squad was led by graduate assistant Katrina Voge. The women’s team scored 52 diving points at the Big Ten Championships in 2021, which ranked them 7th out of 13 teams as part of an overall 5th-place finish. The Wisconsin men scored 77 points, which also ranked them 7th among 10 teams. The Badger men finished in 4th place as a team.
Radman is a member of the championships committee that oversees the NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championship meets.
During Radman’s time at NC State, Radman coached multiple ACC Conference Championships. That includes James Brady at the 2020 meet, where he won the 3-meter title to become the school’s first men’s diving ACC Champion in 20 years. For that effort, Brady was named the ACC Men’s Diver of the Year and ACC Championship Most Valuable Men’s Diver.
When the NCAA Championships were canceled, Brady, like all NCAA qualifiers, were named All-Americans: the school’s first men’s diving All-American since 1978.
Other success stories during Radman’s time in Raleigh include Madeline Kline, who won back-to-back ACC titles on platform in 2018 and 2019, and Rachel Mumma, who dove at the 2015 World University Games representing the U.S.
Radman was chosen as the head women’s coach for that meet, but declined the spot as he and his wife were expecting their second child that summer.
Prior to NC State, Radman spent 2 seasons as the head diving coach at Wyoming and 2 seasons as the assistant diving coach at Florida State. He began his career as an undergraduate volunteer assistant at Indiana University, one of the most storied diving programs in NCAA history.
Radman also owns a wealth of international experience. In 2012, he was the United States team leader for the FINA Diving World Series in Dubai. He also coached the 2011 United States men’s team in Shenzhen, China at the Summer Universiade. Prior to his time at Florida State, he spend a year and a half in Egypt and two years in China as an ESL teacher and diving consultant. In 2006, he was a guest coach to China’s national and regional training centers in Beijing and Xi’an.
Radman was also the program director of Red Wolf Elite Diving Club, Camps, and Educational Clinics that develops coaches’ education as well as judging training. He is a USA Diving Full Coach and is a certified FINA judge and official.
Radman earned a double bachelor’s in French Literature and Language and Near Eastern Cultures, Societies and Politics from Indiana in 2005. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in sport psychology and exercise science.
Yahya is such a great guy! Wishing him and the Badgers all the best!