Head Coach Jason Baumann

Jason Baumann enters his third season as the diving coach for the University of Minnesota. Prior to his hiring at Minnesota, Baumann served as the assistant coach at Indiana University.

In just his second season, Minnesota's diving program made huge strides. Shaun Kennedy became Minnesota's first diving All-American since 2001, finishing 10th on the platform. Kennedy earned an NCAA berth after winning the platform title at the NCAA Zone C Championships. Cole Young had an impressive showing at the Big Ten Championships, scoring in all three events including a ninth place finish on the 1-meter board and platform. Young earned a berth at the U.S. Senior Nationals and placed seventh in the three-meter synchro event.

Baumann made a huge impact in his first season in Minneapolis. He helped Shaun Kennedy earn a berth at the U.S. Senior Nationals where he went on to place 18th on the platform and eighth in the 3-meter synchronized event. Kennedy also finished fourth on the platform at the Big Ten Championships. John Schmidt also performed well under Baumann's tutelage, scoring in all three events. Overall, Baumann coached the Gophers to six scoring performances at Big Tens in 2006.

During Baumann's tenure in Bloomington, the Hoosiers won four combined team U.S. National Championships and four women's U.S. National Championships. At the 2005 Men's and Women's Big Ten Championships, three Indiana divers earned first-team All-Big Ten honors. Cassandra Cardinell, a 2004 U.S. Olympian, went on to become a NCAA champion in the platform event, while freshman diver Christina Loukas was named the Big Ten Diver of the Year. Marc Carlton also earned Big Ten Diver of the Year and first-team All-Big Ten honors.

Along with his Division I experience, Baumann was also involved in both the Indiana Diving Club and the Indiana Diving Academy. With the diving club, Baumann served as the junior team head coach and was the assistant coach of the senior team. In his career, Baumann has coached a three-time Junior National champion, eight Junior National qualifiers, 25 Zone qualifiers and two Olympic Trial qualifiers.

In 1999, Baumann became the head diving coach at the University of Wyoming. In his two years in Laramie, eight divers made the finals at the Mountain West Conference Championships. In 2000 he coached the men's conference platform champion, and in 2001 he was named the Mountain West Men's Diving Coach of the Year after all but one of his divers was a finalist in all three events.

A native of Lincoln, Neb., Baumann won the Nebraska State High School Championship his junior season and was a two-time high school All-American. Following his high school career, Baumann was a four-year team captain for Indiana, a five-time Big Ten Championship finalist and was runner-up in the platform event in 1993. As a senior, Baumann qualified for the NCAA Championships and earned All-America honors in the platform. Along with his college experience, Baumann went on to compete at the U.S. National Championship 10 times.

Baumann graduated from Indiana in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in political science and criminal justice with a minor in Mathematics. He later earned his master's degree in applied sport science in 2004.

Jim was a superb diver both in high school and college, earning high school All-American honors in 1997, earning a spot on the Minnesota All-State team in '96 and '97 and never losing a dual meet in three prep seasons. He was also all-conference three years running from '95-97. At Iowa State, he majored in Sports Management and dove from 1997-2000, and qualified two times for the NCAA Zone diving meet. He also dove for the local club team, and received the Outstanding Diver in Senior Men's from Diving Iowa, Inc.

Jim has a Sports Management degree from Metropolitan State University.

Mike has been coaching diving for more than two decades. During Mike’s tenure as the Head Coach of Minnesota Diving Club from 1997 to 2004 he has coached many nationally ranked junior and senior divers, 47 JO national qualifiers including East/West Gold medallist Jaime Sanger. Mike is also the volunteer assistant diving coach for the University of Minnesota where he has been on 9 Big Ten Championship teams and assisted in the coaching of Big 10 Champion, All- American and 2000 Olympic Trials qualifier PJ Bogart, Big Ten Champions and All – Americans TD Rowe and Dan Croasten and All – Americans Tracy LaVoi, Rebecca Cornthwaite and Shaun Kennedy. As the former head diving coach for Anoka High School and Edina High School he has coached many top Minnesota high school All State and All-American divers, including the 1999 Girls State Champion. Mike serves as the General Chairman of Minnesota Diving Association of US Diving, has served as a member of the US Diving Grassroots Committee and a Certifier for the US Diving Safety Training Course. Mike teaches in the Anoka School district and at Anoka Technical College.

Aaron is a 2001 graduate from Blaine Senior High School where, in diving, he was All-Conference 4 times, a State finalist 3 times, and broke the Northwest Suburban Conference 6 dive and dual meet records. In 2005 he graduated from St. John's University where he was All-MIAC 4 times and holds the Macalester Invitational meet record for 1 meter.

He has 10 years of diving experience and 3 seasons of high school coaching experience. One season at Melrose High School and two at Eden Prairie High School. He has had two Section Champions and three State Qualifiers, including two fourth place finishes.

Currently, Aaron is going to the University of Minnesota for his Masters in Art Education. He hopes to be teaching high school Art next year while continuing to coach diving.

Scott was the Head Age Group Coach for Twin City Divers in the 1990s until he moved to California in 1997. There, he was an assistant coach with the Mission Viejo Nadadores. During Scott's tenure, the Nadadores won 10 National Team titles and he developed divers who won 42 individual championships.

After suffering a leg injury during a middle school wrestling match, Matt Sherman began diving as a therapeutic measure under the tutelage of Chris Whritenour.  In 1990 he learned the fundamentals of the sport under R. Scott Smith and went on to win the Rookie of the Year award at the State Championships in 1990-91.

Sherman earned two all-state awards, four all-conference awards, and was undefeated in two dual-meet prep seasons during his career at Osseo Sr. High School.  He set a six-dive one-meter all-time record with a score of 262 and was named the first team captain in his team’s history.  In the offseason, Sherman continued to train for Twin City Divers and earned four State meet first-place finishes and earned gold on both one- and three-meter at the Thunder Bay Invitational.

In 1994 Sherman began his collegiate career at Gustavus Adolphus, but took his freshman year away from the boards to concentrate on academics.  However, in 1995 he got back on the boards and dove without a coach for two years in the MIAC and won all by one dual meet.  Continuing a trend, Sherman was also the only team captain at Gustavus where he set the all-time records on both the one- and three-meter boards.  He qualified for Nationals each year, but was not funded to attends since he was the only qualifying diver.  He finished his collegiate career as the coach for the men’s and women’s teams at Gustavis until he returned to Twin City Divers under Mike Martens as he prepared to move to Australia.

Sherman graduated from Gustavus with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Chemistry in 1999.  He currently works at the U of M medical school in Neurology as an assistant scientist studying protein assemblies and how they relate to Alzheimer’s disease and neuro-cognitive decline.

Sherman got married in 2005 to Maggie who is a St. Thomas Law School graduate and works for the Attorney General in St. Paul.

Jaime Sanger comes to Twin City Divers sporting a decorated background in the sport of diving.  As a competitor at the University of Tennessee the Plymouth, Minn., native, was a four-time All American and two-time Southeastern Conference Diver of the Year.  She was a three-time SEC One-Meter Champion in her four year of scholarship diving at Tennessee.  Sanger also earned national recognition as a U.S. National Team member in 2003-04 after winning the One-meter US Diving National Championship.  Her national accolades included earning a berth in the finals at the 2004 US Olympic Trials. 

Sanger brings 11 years of diving experience to TCD and most recently served as a Tennessee Club and High School Diving Coach for the past six years.  Sanger was a member of TCD and the Minnesota Diving Club for six years and earned four state titles diving for Wayzata High School. 

After earning her degree in Exercise Science at Tennessee Sanger is now pursuing a masters in Sport Management at the University of Minnesota. She is also the girls diving coach for Edina High School and is a personal trainer at Areté Health Fit in Minnetonka and Edina.