By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
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The University of Texas has a vacancy on its swimming & diving staff for next season.
After the school put up a job posting for a new assistant on Thursday, Texas’ Director of Swimming Bob Bowman confirmed to SwimSwam that the position is for a full-time assistant diving coach, putting an end to any rumor that one of the assistant swim coaches was heading elsewhere.
Manny Pollard, who served as the assistant diving coach for the men’s and women’s teams last season, is making a career change, Bowman told SwimSwam.
Pollard, who was added to the full-time staff prior to the 2024-25 season, worked under Matt Scoggin, who has been the head diving coach at Texas for three decades.
In 2025, the Texas women scored 92 diving points at the NCAA Championships, the most of any team, including freshman Alejandra Estudillo Torres winning the national title on 3-meter.
The Longhorn men scored 27 diving points at NCAAs en route to the team title, with freshman Jacob Welsh being their top performer with a 4th-place finish on 3-meter and a 12th-place showing on platform.
This past season, head women’s coach Carol Capitani led the Texas women to a 3rd-place finish at the 2025 NCAA Championships, their fifth straight time finishing in the top three after reeling off three consecutive runner-up finishes in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
In Bowman’s first year as the men’s head coach, he led the Longhorns to their first NCAA title since 2021, an incredibly quick turnaround after the team finished 7th in 2024, their lowest finish since 2005.
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