John Sirmon

Head Coach, Mobile Lead Coach

Coach John is a Mobile native and one of the original divers of Port City Diving. During his time as a diver, John made appearances at the USA Diving Zone Championships, State Games of America Finals, won the 2002 Alabama High School State Championship, and was later inducted into the St. Paul's Episcopal School's Athletic Hall of Fame. After graduating from St. Paul's in 2004 John attended Trinity University where he was an SAA conference finalist and graduated in 2008. After college John attended The University of Alabama earning his MFA in 2012.

John began coaching at Port City Diving in 2012 followed by stints at Magic City Diving in Birmingham Alabama and the Carolina Diving Academy in Charlotte North Carolina. During John's time as a club coach, he trained multiple high school state champions in both Alabama and North Carolina, had divers compete in both the AAU and USA Diving Jr National Finals, and had divers sign to Division I, II, and III universities. After Carolina Diving Academy John signed on as the Head Diving Coach at Tulane University in 2019 where he recruited and trained Tulane's first diver to qualify to the NCAA Zone Championship in all events and broke multiple school records. After Tulane John spent a season with St. Bonaventure in New York where the men's team outscored every other dive squad in the league as well as breaking school records and winning the A-10 Men's Three meter. 

John is excited to return to his hometown to help diving and divers in the Mobile area Learn, Build, and Achieve! 

 
 

Barb Parker

Associate Head Coach, Pensacola Lead Coach

Coach Barb Parker has been involved in diving since 1979 and has been coaching on the Gulf Coast since 1993.  With 30 years of experience, she has had many successes on all levels of diving!

  • Coaching experience from the local to the international levels

  • Over a dozen Alabama High School State Champions

  • Over a dozen Florida High School State Finalists

  • USA Diving Regional, Zone, and National Qualifiers

  • AAU National Finalists

  • Coach - 2006 AAU International Coach  American/Canadian/China "All-Star Challenge"

  • Coach: University of West Florida - Argonauts

  • Coach - 2023 Master's Diving World Championships - Fukuoka, Japan