Assistant Coaches

Cathy Mallon

Cathy comes to Jersey Diving Academy with 20+x years of coaching experience, dating back to swan dives and wooden diving boards. A gymnast turned “trampoline-ist” turned diver turned math teacher, she combines her passions of flipping and twisting, physics, and calculating trajectories all into one career and couples it with the joy of making it fun.
Cathy has coached at all levels, including numerous years in Princeton Area’s Summer League program (PASDA), most recently with the Community Park Bluefish. She coached 13 years at the High School level (combined between West Windsor-Plainsboro HS and Montgomery HS), and was honored with the NJSIAA Swimming Coach of the Year in 2017 for her contributions to the advancement of High School Diving in New Jersey. Most recently Cathy coached at NCAA Division I Seton Hall University where she
produced a Big East Champion and was part of the Coaching Staff of the Year (Men’s Swimming and Diving Team, 2018).
Cathy was a 4-year Varsity Collegiate diver at Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey) as a National Qualifier and Academic-Honor Athlete, and inductee into the TCNJ Hall of Fame Team of Distinction in 2013. After a 25-year hiatus, she now enjoys Masters Diving with East Coast Masters Diving Team at TCNJ. Her two proudest achievements in her entire life so far, though, are her sons Tyler and Sean.

JANEANN CANTWELL!

JaneAnn will be joining the Jersey Diving Academy Family after the team finally returns back to TCNJ after Covid!  Jane Ann has many years of experience, including 14 years as the Diving Coach at Council Rock School’s (PA) from 2007-2021!  She had many of her divers final in the district and the Pennsylvania State meet.
Athletically JaneAnn earned a scholarship to Temple University and was inducted into the Neshamany’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.  At Temple she earned All-American Honors twice and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education.
In 2006 she was inducted into Temple’s Athletic Hall of Fame
JaneAnn joined East Coast Masters Diving where she would Coach and Compete Again
During The Masters Pan Am Games in Florida 2013 she won the Women’s 3 meter and Woman’s 3 meter synchro diving while setting Two World Records in her age group 50-54
In 2016 In North Carolina during the Masters Summer National’s and Masters Games
JaneAnn won Gold in Woman’s
One Meter, Three Meter and Mixed Synchro.
This Achievement would earn her a third All American Honor
With JaneAnn’s experience , knowledge and her expertise in Diving Mechanics she hopes to share all this and provide a positive attitude and love for the sport of Diving to her young athletes as sheteaches and inspires them to enhance their life’s experience through the sport of Diving .

She is going to be a fantastic addition to our coaching staff!

MIKE CHRISTIE

Mike’s passion for diving started at the ripe age of 9 years old.  He went on to compete for the next 10 years at the Junior Olympic level at Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey) and Drexel University in Philadelphia.  After graduating high school, he was awarded a scholarship to dive at Drexel University.  While diving at Drexel, he discovered his life-long passion for coaching after being asked to assist with the the Junior Olympic team also diving at Drexel.  Mike continued to coach for the next 5 years until graduating in 2001.  After taking a break from coaching to start a family, Mike has been coaching for the last 7 years at Sunnybrook Swim Club in Moorestown NJ.  Mike’s main goal as a coach is to instill confidence in the divers and create an atmosphere of learning, positivity and fun.