Teresa Hall enters her fifth season as the diving coach at Indiana State in the 2025-26 season.
Hall capped the 2024-25 season earning Co-Diving MVC Coach of the Year recognition following her work with the Sycamores diving program. The Sycamores' coach helped the diving program continue to represent nationally with Jecza Lopez earning MVC Diver of the Year honors after winning both the 1M and 3M Springboard Championships. Lopez went on to become the first Sycamore to advance to an NCAA Zones Finals after advancing to the 1M finals.
Over the 2023-24 season, two Indiana State divers qualified for the NCAA Zone C Qualifiers with both Zoe Smith and Bailey Betzer advancing to both the 1M and 3M diving events.
Hall’s group took the program to new heights in the 2022-23 season as the Sycamores boasted MVC finalists in both the 1M and the 3M diving events for the first time in program history, while Zoe Smith became the first ISU diver to compete at the NCAA Zones. Bailey Betzer became the first ISU diver in school history to compete in an MVC diving championship finishing third overall in the 1M. Smith became the second to finish on the podium two days later in the 3M event placing second overall in the field. The Sycamore divers rewrote the record book in 2022-23 with 19 new placements on the All-Time Event Best lists.
Hall comes to Indiana State from Fresno Pacific University where she served as the diving coach for seven years. While at FPU, Hall was named the Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference Diving Coach of the Year in 2017 and 2012. She coached an All-American on the men’s side in the three-meter dive in 2016 and also coached an All-American in the one and three-meter dives in 2017. Her men also performed well at the PCSC Championships where they were named the three-meter dive champions from 2013-2017. Hall’s women also earned the PCSC titles in the one and three-meter dives in 2012.
Prior to her stint at FPU, Hall spent 16 years at Clovis Unified School District as both a club and high school coach. She also coached at City of Chowchilla, Madera Unified and Fresno Unified, as well as serving as the gymnastics coach for Madera Gymnastics and Madera Unified from 1978-1990.
Hall is also a very accomplished athlete, having earned numerous accolades while competing in U.S. Masters Diving, including being named a national champion the three-meter dive in 1989 and in the platform in 2013. She was named a national silver medalist in the one-meter dive in 2006, three-meter dive in 1989 and 2000, and platform in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2012. Hall was a world silver medalist in the three-meter in 1998.
In addition to her silver medals, Hall has earned bronze medals in the national one-meter dive in 1990, 1991, 1999, 2001 and 2012, the three-meter dive in 1990, 1991, 1999 and 2006, and the platform dive in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1998 and 1999. Hall was a world bronze medalist in the platform in 1992 and 2006.
Hall has also attended and hosted numerous USA and AAU diving clinics and camps. She holds a B.A. in liberal arts and a master’s in bilingual education from FPU.
