University of Pittsburgh Athletics
Josh Larcom - Swimming & Diving
- Title:
- Head Coach, Diving
- Email:
- jlarcom@athletics.pitt.edu
Josh Larcom was named the Pitt head diving coach in June 2026. Larcom joins the Panther from FIU where he spent four seasons.
Larcom built Florida International's diving program into one of the American Athletic Conference's most competitive programs. He was named AAC Co-Diving Coach of the Year in 2023-24 after guiding FIU to the conference title and coaching Paige Burrell to a meet-record 1-meter gold at the AAC Championships. Burrell went on to qualify for the NCAA Championships and became the first FIU diver in program history to compete at the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials. Larcom also coached Egyptian Olympian Maha Gouda to a 14th-place finish on platform at the NCAA Championships, earning Second Team All-American honors, and led FIU to its best-ever diving finish at the AAC Championships in 2024-25, collecting four medals across three events.
Prior to FIU, Larcom served as a diving graduate assistant at West Virginia, where he helped qualify seven athletes for NCAA Zones and guided one to the NCAA Championships. He also served as head diving coach at Niagara University from 2018-20 and spent time as a volunteer assistant at Buffalo, helping that program claim its first MAC Championship in 2020-21. At the club level, Larcom coached a program-record five divers to USA Junior Nationals at Wings Diving Club in Buffalo, N.Y.
A native of Deer Park, N.Y., Larcom competed collegiately at Canisius, earning NCAA Zones qualification as a senior. He holds a bachelor's degree in health and wellness and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Canisius, as well as a master's degree in higher education administration from West Virginia. He is a USA Diving-certified competition coach.
