Tickets2018 American Athletic Conference Women's Diving Coach of the Year and former University of Cincinnati diver, Kirtley Krombholz, is entering her sixth season as diving coach at UC in 2020-21.
In 2020 Krombholz continued to drive success with the men’s team finishing first runner-up while the women’s team took home third at the American Athletic Conference. The University of Cincinnati’s Lina Kutsko, Tricia Roscoe, and Claire Schuermann all earned All-American accolades due to their further achievements in the pool. Under Krombholz, Schuermann posted a season-best 201.50 on platform at the AAC championships.
Krombholz helped to take the program to new heights in her second season. The men's team won their first AAC Championship while the women finished runner-up. Claire Schuermann was named AAC Women's Diver of the Year with three podium finishes and Tricia Roscoe won an individual title in platform with seven other podium finishes for the divers. The program set another new record as four divers recorded NCAA Zone-qualifying scores throughout the season. In the classroom, both the men and women posted their highest GPA's ever in the spring and both had more CSCAA academic honorees than any other program in the conference. The women's GPA for the academic year ranked 15th in the nation.
In Krombholz’s first season at UC, she led the Bearcats to their greatest dive season in over 20 years, seeing both Louis Hunt and Ellen Posch earn podium finishes at the 2016 American Athletic Conference championship. Under her tutelage, Hunt won a conference title on the platform as a freshman, the first diving conference champion for Cincinnati in over two decades. Krombholz’s sophomore diver, Posch, finished with a second-place finish at The American championship, earning a qualifying score for the NCAA Zone Meet where she eventually placed 14th.
Prior to UC, Krombholz coached at the Mile High Dive Club, assisting the head coaches in training elite level divers while also providing strength and conditioning instructions for divers of all levels. She coached Mile High Divers of all ages at three USA Diving Junior Nationals and several USA Senior Zone meets. Also while at Mile High Dive Club she had the opportunity to coach at one of the nation’s best dryland facilities, pull dryland belts, and coach tower.
Krombholz competed on the board for the Bearcats from 2007-11 where she qualified for the NCAA Zone Championship all four years and was a BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete. She is also the current 3M springboard pool record holder at the Keating Aquatic Center.
She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati in health promotion and education, exercise and fitness and completed a master's degree in health education, exercise management at UC in 2012. The Cincinnati native is a product of Indian Hill High School.
UC Coaching Highlights
- 2020 AAC Men's runner-up
- 2019 AAC Men's Champion
- 2019 AAC Women's runner-up
- 2018 AAC Women’s Dive Coach of the Year
- 2018 AAC Men's Champion
- 2018 AAC Women's Runner-up
- 45 UC Top Ten Performances
- 11 NCAA Zone Qualifiers
- 3 American Athletic Conference Champions
- 1 AAC Diver of the Year
- 4 All-Americans