Tom Stebbins

Biography

Tom Stebbins enters his 26th season as the head coach of the UCLA women’s diving team in 2023-24, a program that has had much success since his tenure in Westwood began. Stebbins was recently named the Pac-12 Diving Coach of the Year at the conclusion of three consecutive seasons (2017-19), making him just the second person ever to three-peat as the league's top diving coach. Most recently, Stebbins has helped Hannah Butler double-qualify for NCAAs in each of the past three seasons while Eden Cheng earned 2023 Pac-12 Freshman Diver of the Year honors in 2022-23. Despite losing the program's top two divers, UCLA diving was once again a force nationally in 2019-20. Junior Ruby Neave emerged as one of the top divers on the west coast, winning the 1-meter title at Pac-12s and finishing runner-up at the NCAA Zone E Championships. She was one of four Bruins who ultimately qualified for Zones, joining junior Alice Yanovsky and true freshmen Hannah Butler and Katie Shaheen. Stebbins earned CSCAA Diving Coach of the Year honors in 2018-19, making him the second Pac-12 coach ever to take home that award. UCLA divers combined to score 75 points at the NCAA Championships, the most of any school nationwide and a new program benchmark. Under his tutelage, Maria Polyakova was named the CSCAA and Pac-12 Diver of the Year while Eloise Belanger scored more points (38) than any other diver at NCAAs. In 2017-18, Stebbins guided Eloise Belanger to UCLA's second straight Pac-12 Diver of the Year A