Doug Beavers -  Head Coach

Coach Doug Beavers is a nationally recognized developmental diving coach with 35 years of experience as a professional diving instructor. He has been active in the sport of diving since 1977 and has worked with absolute beginners through Olympic-level athletes. 

After diving in Northern Virginia for eleven years, Coach Doug served as an assistant coach at the Northern Virginia Dive Club, where he began his mentorship under Indiana Coach Hobie Billingsley. Beavers then went on to spend two years as the Head Junior Olympic Coach at South Carolina Divers and was the assistant diving coach at the University of South Carolina. While in South Carolina, he worked with Puerto Rican Olympian Vivian Alberty and US Olympians Melisa Moses and Michelle Davison. From Carolina, Beavers was selected by the City of St Peters, Missouri, to create a new, comprehensive diving program at the St Peters REC-PLEX. He started the program from scratch and over the next several years, built Lightning Diving into a nationally recognized USA Diving program, and produced numerous Junior National and Senior National Qualifiers, NCAA scholarship athletes, and several US National Champions. Divers trained by Coach Beavers and his staff in St Peters went on to capture NCAA and Senior National Titles, compete in US Olympic Trials, and even compete at the Olympic Games.

In addition to coaching, Beavers has been active in the administrative levels of the sport, serving on the Executive Board of USA Diving and as President of the US Professional Diving Coaches Association. He has served as the meet director for countless local and National diving competitions and was the Volunteer Coordinator for the 2004 US Olympic Trials for Diving. He continues to actively work to improve coach development through Professional Diving Coaches Association projects.