Matt Scoggin

Mathew Aaron "Matt" Scoggin (born August 17, 1963, in Saitama, Japan) is a retired diver from the United States, who competed for the University of Texas and was a Platform Diving participant at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He coached diving at Longhorn Diving Club beginning in 1986, and at the University of Texas beginning in 1994. In his accomplished career of over thirty years as a coach at Texas, he has been a seven-time NCAA Coach of the Year and served as a U.S. Olympic Coach in 2000, 2008, 2012, 2020 and 2024. As of 2024, his divers at the University of Texas have earned 23 individual NCAA championships and 114 individual Big 12 titles. He spent his teens in Great Falls, Virginia and attended Langley High School in McClean, where he took up diving in his Freshman year. His prior sport was gymnastics which he began as an eight-year-old in Austin, Texas. Gymnastics gave Scoggin a basis for his diving career, though Matt had also trained as a swimmer. Scoggin's father was an Air Force Officer, and the family moved often, living in Japan, Omaha, Nebraska and Texas before moving to Great Falls, Virginia. Matt began to gain recognition as a young diver at the National Junior Olympics in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 15 placing 31st of 43 overall, and 34th in national competition on the 1 meter board on August 13, 1978. Scoggin had also competed in the 1977 National Junior Olympics, but had not performed as well. In his early career, he finished 8th, competing for the Natadores in Platform diving at the U.S. Outdoor Diving Championships in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on August 23, 1980. Scoggin attended the University of Texas and served as a swim team captain competing for Hall of Fame Swimming and Diving Head Coach Eddie Reese while receiving instruction from UT Diving Coach Mike Brown. At Texas, Scoggin was an NCAA one-meter champion in 1983 and 1984, and was a U.S. 10-meter national champion four times. He graduated Texas in 1987 with a degree in Social Work, and initially began a career in Real Estate.

Scoggin injured his back before the 1984 Olympic trials, and did not make the finals, failing to qualify for the U.S. team. He required a while to recover.

1992 Olympics He competed for the U.S. Olympic team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona while serving as team Captain, and finished in tenth place in the Men's 10-meter Platform event.

Scoggin was married to former UT diver Rebecca Culver, a former U. Texas diver who in 2008 received the Frank Erwin Award, recognizing individuals making outstanding contributions to swimming and diving with the University of Texas. Scoggin met Culver as a diver while competing in Virginia, and they both dove for the University of Texas.

Scoggins formerly coached Austin's Longhorn Diving Club beginning in 1986, where he won many Coach of the Year awards. In a more exclusive honor, he was elected to 100 Greatest Swimming and Diving Coaches by the College Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Recognized for his achievements as an Olympic Coach, in both 2009 and 2010, he was the United States Olympic Committee National Diving Coach of the Year.

USA Diving presented Scoggin the Benjamin Foundation Coaches Performance Award as well as the Ted Keller Award. Scoggin won USA Diving's Coach of Excellence Award at the USA Diving National Championships in the summer of 2010.