Croy joined the Oberlin staff in 2013. He comes to Oberlin after spending the previous eight years at Baldwin Wallace University as their diving coach.
In his first year at Oberlin, Croy coached a diver to the finals of the conference meet and to the NCAA Regional Championships.
While at Baldwin-Wallace, Croy’s divers set new records in every event on both the men’s and women’s teams. His divers won 15 conference championships and four different divers were named conference Diver of the Year nine times. He also coached two athletes to seven NCAA Division III national championships where their finishes earned them seven NCAA All-American Awards including the 2012 Women’s national runner-up.
Croy was also named NCAA Division III Women’s Coach of the Year in 2012.
Croy has coached on the high school and club level for 25 years. At the high school level he has coached numerous conference and district champions. He has had more than 35 divers compete in over 60 state meet competitions. Croy has also coached 15 divers to 26 high school All-American awards. He has been named Northeast Ohio’s diving coach of the year four times. Croy’s club divers have qualified for five United States Diving Age Group Nationals and 15 Amateur Athletic Union National Championships.
As an athlete, Croy was a two-time age group Junior Olympic qualifier (1980 and 1984). He was a three-time Ohio High School top six finisher (1983-85) after earning three All-Ohio awards. He was also a three-time High School All-American. Croy was named the Outstanding Freshman of the year at Ohio University where he set the one-meter diving record in 1986.
Croy graduated from Cleveland State University with a MBA in Marketing in 1993.
