Now in his sixth season at Rider, Dennis Ceppa has already been named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Diving Coach of the Year three times. In his first season, three of his divers reached the finals of the MAAC Championships and he came home with a men’s MAAC Diver of the Year, Chris Coles.
As an encore, Ceppa again coached the men’s Diver of the Year at the 2005 MAAC Championships, Chris Coles, and the ECAC Diver of the Year, Dylan Korn. In 2005-06, his female divers reached the MAAC finals, his male divers won both the one-meter and the three-meter dives, and he again came home with the men’s MAAC Diver of the Year, Dylan Korn. In 2007, Korn won again and so did Ceppa. Last season Korn was again named diver of the meet along with Amanda Burke. Ceppa led Burke to the NCAA Diving championships, the first Bronc to ever qualify for NCAA’s.
A teacher at South Brunswick High School, Ceppa is a graduate of The College of New Jersey, where he was twice a National qualifier in diving and a four-time conference finalist.
Ceppa coached the Blue Dolphin Junior Olympic team from 1996 to 2004, where he worked with age group national finalists, senior national qualifiers, NCAA All-Americans and Olympic Trial finalists.
During the summer Ceppa performs at high diving entertainment shows.
