Craig Brown, a two-time Big Ten Diving Coach of the Year, enters his 22nd season at the helm of the Nittany Lion divers.

He has consistently produced quality divers that have represented Penn State on the conference and national level. Since taking over the diving program in 1986, he has sent at least one diver to the NCAA Championships in all but two seasons since 1988. In 1995 and 1998, he coached three divers to the NCAA Championships. He helped Chris Devine to the one-meter Big Ten title in 1994 and a third place NCAA finish. More recently, he guided Drew Jackson to four consecutive trips to the NCAAs.

Two years ago, he coached Penn State's first Big Ten diving champion since Devine in 1994 as Mike Alderman won the one-meter event. Alderman also qualified for the U.S. Open Diving Championships that year. Last year, Alderman wrapped up his career with a pair of top eight finishes on the springboards at Big Ten's and once again qualified for NCAA's. Brown also helped another diver, Adam Pierce, qualify for the NCAA Championships in 2006, where he was Penn State's lone representative and he made the best of it, placing 15th in the three-meter diving event and picking up two points for the Nittany Lions. Pierce was a two-time NCAA qualifier.

Over the last two years, Brown has developed Kim Peifer, who walked on to the diving team after being a member of the track and field team at Penn State for her first two years, into one of the top divers in the Big Ten. Peifer scored points on the three-meter board at Big Ten's last year.

Brown was the 1994 Big Ten Diving Coach of the Year and was also named the 1999 Big Ten Diving Coach of the Year after coaching Jaime Jaax to the Big Ten three-meter title, the first Nittany Lion woman to win a Big Ten diving title. Overall, Brown has coached 12 different divers that have qualified for NCAA Championships

Brown headed the men's and women's diving programs at Penn from 1983-85 in his first collegiate coaching post.

Prior to his appointment at Penn, Brown coached at Philadelphia area clubs, including the Warrington Swim and Tennis Club (1982-83), Hatboro-Horsham Aquatic Club (1983), Hideaway Swim Club (1980-81), Hatboro Memorial Pool (1976, 78-79) and Hatboro YMCA (1976).

As a diver at Penn State, Brown won the 1981 Eastern Collegiate Championship in the three-meter springboard and the one-meter springboard in 1979. He was the team's most valuable diver in 1978, 1979 and 1981.

As a scholastic diver, Brown was the Pennsylvania state champion in 1977 and the Bux-Mont League Champion in 1975 and 1976. He won the YMCA national one-meter championship in 1977 and was the District I titlist in 1976.

A two-time Junior Olympic finalist, he also earned All-Bux-Mont honors in soccer and in football as a placekicker.

Brown graduated from Penn State with a degree in Environmental Resource Management and worked from 1982-85 as an inventory control and purchasing manager with the Moreland Corporation in Willow Grove, Pa. He also was an assistant quality control manager and production supervisor with Moreland.

Brown is married to former Wisconsin All-America diver Kim DeCloux of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.