Meshcherskiy comes to Towson after most recently serving as the head coach and owner of Alliance Diving where he has coached elite youth divers such as 2021 3-meter and platform Junior National Champion Delany Hsu.
In 2021, he represented Team USA as a National Team coach at the UANA Pan-American Junior Diving Championship. In 2024 Meshcherskiy served as a National Team coach for Team of Kyrgyz Republic at the World Aquatics Junior Diving Championships.
He began age-group coaching in 2007 and served in head coaching roles at Whirlwind Diving Club (2007-11), Northeast Elite Diving Purchase (2011-12), High Dive Champions Purchase (2012-18), and Montgomery Dive Club (2018-20).
Meshcherskiy graduated from Ural Technical Insititute in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 2002 and has been coaching in the United States since 2005, he started as a varsity diving coach at Salem State College and as a volunteer diving coach at Harvard University from 2006-2007.
Meshcherskiy grew up in Russia and started diving at the age of five. He was a highly successful diver who placed first and second in numerous national and international competitions including the Junior National Championship, the Russian Cup, and claiming gold in the 3-meter dive and silver on platform at the 1995 Junior European Championships.
