Wes Mattice

Biography

Wes Mattice was hired as the head diving coach at Florida State in May of 2024. Mattice arrives in Tallahassee following a head coaching stint at NC State, where he led divers to the NCAA Championships in each of his three seasons at the helm (2021-2024), while helping the Wolfpack take home the ACC Championship in all three seasons. Arriving in Raleigh, North Carolina in May of 2021, Mattice produced 41 ACC-scoring performances including six championship finalists, a bronze medalist and one gold medalist. NC State also had divers represented at the NCAA Championships. In 2024, Mattice coached rookie Bayleigh Cranford to the ACC platform title, where she edged out Else Prassterink of Louisville (313.20) with a score of 313.80. Cranford went on to compete in the event at the NCAA Championships. Mattice also guided Renato Calderaro to bronze at the 2023 ACC meet as a freshman before qualifying for nationals. In his first season, Bayne Bennett qualified for the NCAA Championships in 2022, marking the first time since the 2017-18 season the Wolfpack had a student-athlete on the boards at nationals. Prior to NC State, Mattice served as the head diving coach at George Washington after a stint training youth divers. He served as a coach for the USA Diving Junior National Team. Mattice was the 2020 Atlantic-10 Men’s Diving Coach of the year after guiding Peter Nachtwey to the Most Outstanding Diver awards in both 2018-19 and 2019-20. The men claimed the team title in 2019 and the wom