Sisson joined the Penn State staff prior to the 2025-26 season after coaching the 2024-25 season as the diving coach at Toledo.
In 2025-26, on the men’s side, Hayden Elliott and Alex Wodehouse qualified for NCAA Diving Zones.
Elliott led Penn State with six individual event wins this season, including three in the 1-meter and three in the 3-meter.
Alex Reese picked up two event wins in the 1-meter, while Jack Olivier earned one win in the 3-meter.
In women’s diving, Grace Brammer competed at the NCAA Championships, while she was joined at NCAA Diving Zones by Charlize Beniquez, Abbey Ekstrom and Kailey Koval.
Brammer collected six individual event wins, including four in the 3-meter and two in the 1-meter.
Kailey Koval earned four event wins with two in the 1-meter and two in the 3-meter, while Charlize Beniquez recorded one event win in the 1-meter.
Prior to Toledo, he coached two years as diving coach at Georgia Southern (2022-24). He also served as diving coach at Bryant (2021-22), Davenport (2020-21) and Wisconsin-Whitewater (2014-17, 18-19).
At Georgia Southern, Sisson mentored Karlee Wells to four Sun Belt Conference finals, two appearances at the NCAA Zone B Diving Championships and a school-record in the 3-meter (319.05).
Sisson claimed 2022 NEC Men’s Diving Coach of the Year honors, while at Bryant.
The Madison, Wisc. Native served four years at Wisconsin-Whitewater, guiding several WIAC finalists, including Sierra Becker, who was a four-time national qualifier and an All-American in 2015.
Sisson was the diving coach for Edgewood and Monona Grove High Schools from 2018-20, where he coached a three-time WIAA Division II state champion and earned WISCA Division 2 Boys’ Dive Coach of the Year accolades in 2018-19 and 2019-20.
Sisson competed at UW-Milwaukee from 2010-13. He was a Horizon League Championship finalist and was UW-Milwaukee’s Men’s Diver of the Year as a freshman. He graduated from Wisconsin-Whitewater with a bachelor of liberal arts degree in 2021.