2026 Head Coach – Bella Lambert

Bella has been diving for Ridgetop since she was 6 years old. She has coached the last 3 summers and was co-head coach last summer, 2025. She is graduating from Douglas Freeman High School this spring and will attending Randolph-Macon College this fall.

Assistant Coaches

Shirley Ramsey is a retired school counselor/teacher from Henrico County Schools. She has coached diving since her first coaching position at Bon Air pool in 1973  as part of the JRAC summer league. She has served as a coach in JRAC since then, give or take a few years while raising 3 children. She also coached at VCU from 1980 to 1986, while they still had an aquatic program in place. She has been involved with AAU and US diving while assisting in setting up meets to bring these programs to Richmond. While serving as the Varsity Coach for JRAC in the 80’s she was able to take local divers to meets in other cities bringing more competition to our RIchmond Divers. Coaching all ages in diving also includes 3 years of coaching the dive team at St. Christopher’s and St. Catherine’s. Ms. Ramsey has coached at Ridgetop for over 20 years. She is a lover of the sport and brings experience as a coach. teacher, school counselor, and advocate for mental health.  

Junior Assistant Coaches – Preston Buchanan has been diving for Ridgetop since he was 9 years old. This is his second year as Junior Coach. He attends Douglas Freeman High School and dives on their dive team.

Dive Representative

Katie Morgan handles dive registration, communications, and reps Ridgetop dive with JRAC.  She takes the lead on the meet logistics and software.  She also serves on the RT Board. Katie is no stranger to the dive community. She dove in Northern Virginia for 15 years and coached for 4 years. Three of her four sons dive for Ridgetop. You can reach Katie at diving@ridgetop.org

Volunteer opportunities

We are in need of additional dive volunteers to help at meets and to grow the dive program.  Please contact us at diving@ridgetop.org