Courtesy: Ohio State Athletics
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Two-time NCAA diving champion Lyle Yost has been named the assistant diving coach for the Ohio State males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving applications. Yost is the primary full-time assistant diving coach in program historical past.
“I’m very excited to usher in Lyle Yost as our first ever full-time assistant diving coach in program historical past,” head diving coach Justin Sochor stated. “That is lengthy overdue, and I do know that Lyle will likely be an ideal match for our program. He has spent 5 years below my instruction and has a wealthy historical past with Ohio State. I can’t consider a greater candidate. It’s one other nice day to be a Buckeye!”
Yost had an outstanding five-year profession as a student-athlete at Ohio State and is without doubt one of the most embellished divers in program historical past. Yost claimed back-to-back nationwide titles on the 1-meter board (2023, 2024), changing into the primary member of the boys’s swimming and diving program to win consecutive NCAA titles because the 1970’s. Yost was the primary Buckeye since Patrick Jeffrey in 1988 to win the NCAA 1-meter title.
“I had an opportunity to be part of this historic program as a student-athlete by means of each undergrad and grad college, and that have formed me into the individual I’m right this moment,” stated Yost. “I’m thrilled to have the chance to pay it ahead and to make my mark as a member of the teaching workers right here at The Ohio State College. I’m wanting ahead to working with the subsequent technology of Buckeye divers and I do know the gnarliest is but to return. Time to get to work!”
Yost was the 2023 CSCAA Diver of the 12 months. He was the one diver that yr to earn First Crew All-American honors in all three dives (1-meter, 3-meter, platform). He additionally grew to become the primary male student-athlete at Ohio State to earn the Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports activities Scholar of the 12 months award, incomes that honor in 2023. Throughout his freshman season, Yost was the Massive Ten platform champion and was named the Massive Ten Co-Diver of the Championship. All through his profession, Yost additionally gained 4 1-meter medals on the convention championships (two silver and two bronze) and two 3-meter medals (one silver and one bronze).
Yost earned First Crew All-American honors on the 1-meter 5 instances, on the platform 4 instances and on the 3-meter 3 times. He was acknowledged as a CSCAA First Crew Scholar All-American 4 instances and was a four-time member of the Educational All-Massive Ten Crew. Following the 2024 season, he was offered with the Massive Ten Medal of Honor and was named to the School Sports activities Communicators Educational All-America Second Crew.
“Lyle is all that’s good in being a Buckeye,” stated Director of Swimming and Diving Invoice Dorenkott. “He was the consummate student-athlete and can, little question, take his elite skillset into the teaching ranks. Our present and future divers will profit from Lyle’s ardour, persistence and skill to deliver out the very best in others.”
Outdoors of NCAA competitors, Yost has additionally excelled. He was the 1-meter champion at Winter Nationals in 2024 and the 1-meter champion on the 2022 U.S. Open. He has competed in World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan and Doha, Qatar and certified for the U.S. Olympic Crew Trials on the 3-meter board.
Yost graduated from Ohio State together with his undergraduate diploma in Spanish, with a spotlight in Latin American research, and earned his graduate diploma in world language schooling, with a specialization in Spanish.
