We are excited about the 2008 dive season and are pleased to welcome back Jeff Salgado and Maureen Theis as the North St. Johns dive team coaches!

Jeff Salgado: Jeff is currently a senior attending UMBC, and is also a member of the Retriever Dive Team. He has been diving for nine years and has helped coach the club team at Saint Bonaventure University, where he dove for one year. In addition, he has also coached the Retriever dive program for younger and intermediate divers. Jeff has been selected as a US Open Qualifier for the Germantown meet and named the 2007 Most Outstanding Diver in America’s East Conference Meet, Two- time America East Aquatic Performer in 2005, and in high school was awarded the Gettysburg area aquatic athlete of the year.

Maureen (Mo) Theis:  Maureen graduated from Saint Bonaventure University with a degree in Elementary and Special Education. She has earned her master’s degree in school counseling at Loyola College in May 2006, and has obtained a counselor position with Sparrow’s Point High School in Baltimore County. Maureen is a former gymnast of ten years that converted to competitive diving in her senior year of high school. Maureen was a member of the St. Bonaventure Dive team for four years, and has won many awards and honors. She was named the 2004 Atlantic 10 Conference Diver of the year and has received the gold medal in the three-meter diving competition and the silver on the one-meter board. Maureen has just completed her fourth year as the head dive coach at Loyola College. In addition, she has four years experience coaching a summer league at the Mill Creek Towne Swim Club in Montgomery County.