Marzullo Named Nebraska Diving Coach

A 10-time All-American and the 2019 Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, Landon Marzullo was named the new Head Diving Coach at the University of Nebraska by Pablo Morales on Thursday, June 24.

“Landon brings an outstanding coaching skill set to this position, derived from a high-level competitive career, his own coaching experiences, and being around some of the best coaches in the business,” Morales said. “He has made an immediate positive impact at each of his coaching stops. With his skill, energy and positive approach, he has gotten the best out of his divers, supported high achievement in the classroom, and successfully recruited both domestically and internationally. He will do the same here at Nebraska. Husker diving is in great hands.”

Marzullo, who most recently led the men’s and women’s divers at Wisconsin in 2019-20, went to Madison after building strong men’s and women’s diving programs in three seasons at UNLV.  He coached Rebel divers to three individual conference titles in his three seasons in Las Vegas, and helped his divers set five school records. In 2019, he was named the WAC Coach of the Year after leading freshman Tazman Abramowicz WAC titles on the three-meter and platform events. Abramowicz also became the first Rebel men’s diver to qualify for the NCAA Diving Championships in more than 30 years. In 2018, he coached the first Rebel women’s diver (Myka Fielding) to the NCAA Championships for the first time in more than 20 seasons. Marzullo was also the head coach of the Rebel Diving Club from 2015 to 2019.

Marzullo got his first taste of collegiate coaching as a volunteer assistant at Ohio State in 2012-13. He left OSU to work as a high diver for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines from 2013 to 2015, performing multiple times per day on the three-meter, 10-meter and 17-meter platforms.

Marzullo, who was the Big Ten Diver of the Year at Indiana as a freshman in 2008, spent his first two collegiate seasons with the Hoosiers. He was also the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and the 2008 Big Ten Diver of the Championships after winning conference titles on the one-meter and three-meter springboards and adding a fourth-place finish on platform. He also took fourth on the platform at the 2008 NCAA Championships to claim first-team All-America honors for the first time in his career, while adding top-16 national finishes on both the one and three meter boards. Marzullo took fifth on platform for the Hoosiers at the 2009 NCAA Championships.

He transferred to Florida State following his sophomore season in Bloomington. He was an All-ACC Diver for the Seminoles in both 2010 and 2011. As a senior, he was the runner-up in all three diving events at the ACC Championships, before taking seventh on the three-meter board at the NCAA Championships to claim first-team All-America honors.  He closed his career as a 10-time All-American overall, including four first-team All-America awards. He was also named to the 2011 World University Games Diving Team, earning his best finish (4th) on the three-meter synchronized event. He earned his bachelor’s degree in criminology from FSU in May of 2012. 

Prior to his collegiate career, Marzullo was a six-time junior national champion and captured gold on platform at the 2005 Pan Am Junior Championships. He was a five-time U.S. National Team choice, and he twice qualified for the U.S. Olympic Diving Team Trials. He also finished second on the one-meter board at the 2011 U.S. National Championships.