About US

Potomac Dive Club’s head coach is Angie Baker.
Coach Baker grew up in Kentucky where she started as a competitive gymnast. At age 9 she began competing with her summer league swim and dive team and fell in love with the sport. She competed at the KHSAA State Swim and Dive Meet all four years of High School and competed in the Kentucky State Bluegrass Games. Coach Baker was a summer league diving coach in her hometown of Owensboro. 

Coach Baker took a break from swimming and diving and returned to the sport in 2004 as a dive instructor at Chinn Aquatics and Fitness Center and returned to the competitive side of the sport in 2007 with Alexandria Dive Club as a Masters Diver. In 2008, she won bronze at the USA Masters Diving Spring Nationals and in 2009 won silver at the USA Masters Diving Summer Nationals.

In addition to her diving experience, Coach Baker was the General Manager and Special Abilities Director for SwimKids Swim School and currently serves as one of their Trainers. She serves on the Special Abilities Committee for the US Swim School Association, a group dedicated to teaching aquatics instructors from all over the world to effectively work with individuals with special needs and in October of 2016, the committee was honored by the USSSA with the Guiding Light Award for their leadership and dedication to serving the special needs community. She was a volunteer Head Coach for East Prince William County Special Olympics Swim Team for 10 years and served as the Assistant Head Coach for the Virginia swim team competing in the 2018 National Special Olympics Games in Seattle. She also coached one of the nationally qualified high performance athletes to the 2019 World Games in Abu Dhabi.

In 2016, Coach Baker was hired as the Assistant Coach for the Prince William County High School dive team and in 2018 was promoted to Head Coach. In 2022 she and her husband Matt, decided to start Potomac Dive Club and are excited to continue serving the youth sports community in Prince William and Stafford Counties.