Adam Vance

Biography

The 2025-26 season begins Vance’s eighth season with the Pioneers. Since 2018 the diving program has reached record breaking results. SHU ACCOMPLISHMENTS • 2025 MAAC Diving Coach of the YEAR 2022, 2023 & 2024 NEC Women's Diving Coach of the Year • Earned ECAC Women's Winter Championship Diving Coach of the Meet honors in both 2019 and 2022. Coach Sinclair Yadao MAAC Women’s Diver of the Year & Rookie Diver of the year I 2025. Coach 2 NCAA Zone qualifiers in 2024-25 Season • Coached Lola Barrett to a NEC Diver of the Meet in 2024, where she captured both the one meter and three-meter gold medals, set a new conference record on three meter and became the first diver in SHU history to qualify for NCAA Zones. • Thirteen of the 15 divers on SHU's all-time top 5 lists were coached by Vance. • 2019 Molly Martin placed seventh on the three-meter, becoming the first Pioneer since 2010 to place in the top 8 at the NEC Championship. • Olivia McNicholas 2x NEC Champion, 4x NEC All-Conference Diver. 16x NEC Diver of the Week and Lucy Cox Alumni Award Winner. Coach Adam saw a record-breaking year, Lola Barret broke 2 pool records as well as 1 school record, Sinclair Yadao won both 1M & 3M Diving at MAAC’s earning her Women’s Diver of the Meet and Rookie Diver of the meet. With a dominant performance on the boards, it earned Coach Adam Vance MAAC Diving Coach of the year, his 4th in a row including the 3 in a row from the NEC. Coach Adam was represented with his 2 divers at Rutgers Universi