Women's Swimming and Diving
- Title:
- Head Diving Coach
- Email:
- crlane@gwu.edu
- Phone:
- 909-499-8061
Christopher Lane is entering his sixth season at the helm of GW diving after being the named GW Swimming & Diving Head Diving Coach in September 2021.
Lane has led GW's divers to historic heights, elevating the diving side of the team in his five seasons. Lane, the 2024 A-10 Women's Diving Coach of the Year, has produced success from GW's divers not seen since the 90's.
In 2025, Lane's diving contingent sent four student-athletes to NCAA Diving Zone A (Olivia Paquette, Ben Bradley, Holden Wheeler and Michael Wood). Prior to NCAA Diving Zones, GW's divers excelled at the A-10 Championships, claiming one gold medal (Raquette), two silver medals (Paquette & Wood), and one bronze medal (Bradley). After making the podium in both events, Paquette was named the 2025 A-10 Women's Most Outstanding Diver.
In 2024, Lane led the Revolutionaries to a historic meet, as the men's and women's divers combined for 174 points, which was the most points from a group of divers in the five years prior to that meet.
As a collegiate competitor, Lane started at Ball State University diving with John Wingfield (2008 USA Olympic Team Head Coach) before transferring to Arizona, where he was a PAC-10 finalist and NCAA Zones qualifier.
In 2019, Lane came to Foggy Bottom to pursue his MPH through the Milken Institute School of Public Health, and he’s spent the past three seasons working with the Buff & Blue, a run that’s seen the program win 3 consecutive men’s and women’s titles. Since taking the helm at GW the diving program collectively scored 106 points in 2022 (2nd in the A-10), 137 points in 2023 (1st in the A-10) and 174 points in 2024 (1st in the A10 with the highest combined point total in school history and the highest in the A10 conference in 8 years).
In 2024, Lane was named Women’s A-10 Coach of the Year, with Olivia Paquette winning both titles on 1m and 3m, Dara Reyblatt repeating as a bronze medalist on 1m and 8th on 3m with freshman Veronica Fyfe finishing fourth in the A final and winning the consols narrowly beating out her teammate Olivia Rosen in 10th place.
Highlights from Lanes’ three seasons at GW include breaking eight school records, qualifying nine athletes to NCAA Zones, having eight athletes achieving academic All-Americans honors, two individual A-10 titles, four silver medals, four bronze medals and achieving the highest diving point total in GW history.
Outside of Foggy Bottom, Lane was named the head coach of Montgomery Dive Club (MDC) in 2023. MDC is the second largest junior national diving program in the United States. Last year MDC won the junior national championship title for boys producing six national age group champions as well finishing as the runner up overall in the US. MDC also produced 18 D1 athletes in 2023 competing in every major and mid-major conference around the country.
As a junior coach Lane has helped produce some of the nation’s top junior divers and has served on the coaching staff for team USA for international events. He currently has three athletes on team USA and is looking forward to this year’s international events in Rio, Rome, Aachen and Edinburgh.
