University of Massachusets Athletics
Men's Swimming & Diving
Bernosky, Missy
Missy Bernosky
- Title:
- Diving Coach
- Email:
- mbernosky@umass.edu
- Phone:
- 413-345-1688
Missy Bernosky joined the Massachusetts men's and women's swimming and diving staff as a diving coach in September of 2023, bringing over 25 years of coaching experience.
During the 2024-25 season, coached Andrew Bell to 20 first-place finishes across both the one-meter and three-meter diving events, while breaking two previous pool records at the Justin Jennings Invitational from 1987 and 1994.
At the Atlantic 10 Championships, two divers claimed three medals. Bell picked up two gold medals in both the one-meter and three-meter dive, breaking an A-10 Championship meet record in the three-meter dive with a six-dive total of 428.15. Khrystyna Yaremyn earned the bronze medal in the three-mater dive with a score of 281.85. Bell earned A-10 Performer of the Week four times this season, leading to being named the league's Men's Diver of the Year in back-to-back seasons, while Bernosky tabbed the A-10 Men's Diving Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year. Bell's honor marks the fourth in program history, as Bell is the only Minuteman to achieve the status twice. Along with Bell earning second team honors in 2024, Marc Surrette earned second team status in 1986, while Peter Koback was selected to the third team in 1990.
Six divers in Bell, Danielle Guerin, Salem Howes, Alex Kreidler, Shreeya Sinha and Yaremyn qualified for and competed at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships. Bell qualified for the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships after becoming the champion in both the one-meter and three-meter dive at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships. He tallied a 12-dive total of 747.25 in the one-meter dive and a score of 773.90, setting new school record in both events. Bell became the only Minuteman diver in school history to represent Massachusetts at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships in back-to-back years.
While at the NCAA Championships, Bell finished 22nd in the one-meter event, with a six-dive total of 331.35, while scoring a 304.90 to earn 35th in the three-meter event.
In her first season with UMass, Bernosky helped Bell claim first place in 18 diving events across both the one-meter and three-meter boards, while breaking school all-time and pool records several times throughout the season. Bell set a school record, as well as a Joseh R. Rogers, Jr. Pool record in the one-meter with a score of 409.05 on January 6. He broke the tree-meter record three times in the year, before setting on a personal-best 461.40 on February 10.
During the Atlantic 10 Championships, the diving team collected three medals. Bell earned the gold in both the one-meter (381.75) and the three-meter (406.95) dives, while Shreeya Sinha took home the bronze in the three-meter dive with a personal-best of 297.45. Tommy Cotner registered a six-dive total of 337.05 in the preliminaries of the three-meter dive, marking a personal-best. At the conclusion of the A-10 Championships, Bernosky was named A-10 Men's Diving Coach of the Year, while Bell tabbed the A-10 Most Outstanding Men's Diver of the Year.
Bell, Cotner and Sinha all competed at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, with Bell advancing to the NCAA Swim & Dive Championships. Bell became only the second diver in UMass men's swimming and diving history to qualify for the NCAA Swim & Dive Championships after scoring a 730.80 (12-dive) to take fifth in the one-meter, and a 664.80 (12-dive) in the three-meter to place eighth at the NCAA Zone A Championships.
Bell finished 20th in the three-meter event on the NCA Championships, marking the highest finish for a UMass men's diver in program history. His placement was also the highest finish for either the men's or women's team since Emma Roush placed 15th in the one-meter in 2017.
Bernosky saw Bell land on the A-10 All-Academic Team and the 2023-24 College Sports Communicators' Academic All-America Second Team, becoming the third Minutemen in program history to earn the honor and first men's diver to achieve the status.
Prior to UMass, Bernosky served as an assistant diving coach for the Clavadistas Del Sol Age Group Diving Team in Scottsdale, Arizona. There, she coached all levels from beginner to Junior National level divers in the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform dive. She also assisted with conditioning, recruitment, and the running and judging of home age group diving meets.
Bernosky returned to coaching, spending a season with the Phoenix Diving Club Age Group Diving Team as an assistant diving coach, coaching all levels, and assisting with the running and the judging of age group diving meets.
From 1998-2004, Bernosky was the Head Age Group Diving Coach for the Bengal Tigers Aquatics Club J.O. Age Group Diving Team in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while also serving as the manager of the LSU diving team (1999-2001). While with the Bengal Tigers Aquatics Club, she communicated with parents and athletes, helped with recruitment, managed the ordering of equipment, payments, travel coordination, and other expenses. As the team manager for LSU, Bernosky aided the diving and swimming coach during all swim and dive practices and meets, helped with setting up the pool for home meets, kept track of time, including swimming splits, and helped supervise team conditioning.
Bernosky made several stops as a diving coach, beginning with the Palantine Diving Club Age Group Diving Team, in Palatine, Illinois from 1989-91. She was also the diving coach and co-manager for a diving camp in a few towns Illinois, the head J.O. diving coach and high school diving/assistant swim coach for Barrington Aquatic Diving Academy and Barring High School in Barrington, Illinois, from 1991-96, and was the assistant J.O. and senior age group diving coach for the Lightning Age Group Diving Team from 1996-98 in St. Peters Rec-Plex, Missouri.
In her time away from diving starting in 2004, Bernosky was a teacher. She was a diver at Northern Michigan University (1984-86) and was a four-time All-American in the 1-meter and 3-meter dive. Bernosky earned her bachelor's degree in sociology from Grand Canyon University, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and earned her master's in education in teach leadership from Brandeis University.
During the 2024-25 season, coached Andrew Bell to 20 first-place finishes across both the one-meter and three-meter diving events, while breaking two previous pool records at the Justin Jennings Invitational from 1987 and 1994.
At the Atlantic 10 Championships, two divers claimed three medals. Bell picked up two gold medals in both the one-meter and three-meter dive, breaking an A-10 Championship meet record in the three-meter dive with a six-dive total of 428.15. Khrystyna Yaremyn earned the bronze medal in the three-mater dive with a score of 281.85. Bell earned A-10 Performer of the Week four times this season, leading to being named the league's Men's Diver of the Year in back-to-back seasons, while Bernosky tabbed the A-10 Men's Diving Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year. Bell's honor marks the fourth in program history, as Bell is the only Minuteman to achieve the status twice. Along with Bell earning second team honors in 2024, Marc Surrette earned second team status in 1986, while Peter Koback was selected to the third team in 1990.
Six divers in Bell, Danielle Guerin, Salem Howes, Alex Kreidler, Shreeya Sinha and Yaremyn qualified for and competed at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships. Bell qualified for the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships after becoming the champion in both the one-meter and three-meter dive at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships. He tallied a 12-dive total of 747.25 in the one-meter dive and a score of 773.90, setting new school record in both events. Bell became the only Minuteman diver in school history to represent Massachusetts at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships in back-to-back years.
While at the NCAA Championships, Bell finished 22nd in the one-meter event, with a six-dive total of 331.35, while scoring a 304.90 to earn 35th in the three-meter event.
In her first season with UMass, Bernosky helped Bell claim first place in 18 diving events across both the one-meter and three-meter boards, while breaking school all-time and pool records several times throughout the season. Bell set a school record, as well as a Joseh R. Rogers, Jr. Pool record in the one-meter with a score of 409.05 on January 6. He broke the tree-meter record three times in the year, before setting on a personal-best 461.40 on February 10.
During the Atlantic 10 Championships, the diving team collected three medals. Bell earned the gold in both the one-meter (381.75) and the three-meter (406.95) dives, while Shreeya Sinha took home the bronze in the three-meter dive with a personal-best of 297.45. Tommy Cotner registered a six-dive total of 337.05 in the preliminaries of the three-meter dive, marking a personal-best. At the conclusion of the A-10 Championships, Bernosky was named A-10 Men's Diving Coach of the Year, while Bell tabbed the A-10 Most Outstanding Men's Diver of the Year.
Bell, Cotner and Sinha all competed at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, with Bell advancing to the NCAA Swim & Dive Championships. Bell became only the second diver in UMass men's swimming and diving history to qualify for the NCAA Swim & Dive Championships after scoring a 730.80 (12-dive) to take fifth in the one-meter, and a 664.80 (12-dive) in the three-meter to place eighth at the NCAA Zone A Championships.
Bell finished 20th in the three-meter event on the NCA Championships, marking the highest finish for a UMass men's diver in program history. His placement was also the highest finish for either the men's or women's team since Emma Roush placed 15th in the one-meter in 2017.
Bernosky saw Bell land on the A-10 All-Academic Team and the 2023-24 College Sports Communicators' Academic All-America Second Team, becoming the third Minutemen in program history to earn the honor and first men's diver to achieve the status.
Prior to UMass, Bernosky served as an assistant diving coach for the Clavadistas Del Sol Age Group Diving Team in Scottsdale, Arizona. There, she coached all levels from beginner to Junior National level divers in the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform dive. She also assisted with conditioning, recruitment, and the running and judging of home age group diving meets.
Bernosky returned to coaching, spending a season with the Phoenix Diving Club Age Group Diving Team as an assistant diving coach, coaching all levels, and assisting with the running and the judging of age group diving meets.
From 1998-2004, Bernosky was the Head Age Group Diving Coach for the Bengal Tigers Aquatics Club J.O. Age Group Diving Team in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while also serving as the manager of the LSU diving team (1999-2001). While with the Bengal Tigers Aquatics Club, she communicated with parents and athletes, helped with recruitment, managed the ordering of equipment, payments, travel coordination, and other expenses. As the team manager for LSU, Bernosky aided the diving and swimming coach during all swim and dive practices and meets, helped with setting up the pool for home meets, kept track of time, including swimming splits, and helped supervise team conditioning.
Bernosky made several stops as a diving coach, beginning with the Palantine Diving Club Age Group Diving Team, in Palatine, Illinois from 1989-91. She was also the diving coach and co-manager for a diving camp in a few towns Illinois, the head J.O. diving coach and high school diving/assistant swim coach for Barrington Aquatic Diving Academy and Barring High School in Barrington, Illinois, from 1991-96, and was the assistant J.O. and senior age group diving coach for the Lightning Age Group Diving Team from 1996-98 in St. Peters Rec-Plex, Missouri.
In her time away from diving starting in 2004, Bernosky was a teacher. She was a diver at Northern Michigan University (1984-86) and was a four-time All-American in the 1-meter and 3-meter dive. Bernosky earned her bachelor's degree in sociology from Grand Canyon University, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and earned her master's in education in teach leadership from Brandeis University.
Swim & Dive: Highlights vs. Fordham (02/01/2020)
Saturday, February 01
MS&D Highlights vs. NJIT - (2019/10/26)
Saturday, October 26
Swimming & Diving Highlights vs. Bryant
Saturday, January 12
S&D: Highlights vs. Fairfield (10/13/18)
Saturday, October 13
