SUNY Cortland Athletics

Tom Olivo was one of the top divers in Cortland history who went on to coach and champion the sport before embarking on a long and successful business career.
 
Olivo earned a bachelor's degree in geology from Cortland in 1979. He competed in gymnastics for two seasons, but made his larger impact athletically as a diver for four seasons. A team captain as a junior and senior, Olivo qualified for the NCAA Div. III Championships four times and was a four-time All-SUNYAC honoree, including two league crowns. Olivo earned All-America honors with a 10th-place national finish on the 3-meter board as a junior and with a 10th-place showing on the 1-meter board as a senior.
 
Olivo established all school and Cortland pool records on both boards, and he finished first in 89 of his 101 dual meet, invitational and conference competitions during his four-year tenure. He helped Cortland win the SUNYAC title as a senior and place in the top 20 at nationals three times. Also while at Cortland, Olivo was Geology Club president and Delta Kappa Beta fraternity house president during his senior year.
 
Upon graduation from Cortland, the Bedford Hills, N.Y., native served as men's diving coach at the University of Vermont from 1979-83 and men's and women's diving coach at the University of California San Diego from 1983-87. At UCSD he coached a four-time NCAA champion and was named the 1985-86 NCAA Division III Diving Coach of the Year. He also was a two-time Master's national champion in 10-meter platform diving in 1985 and 1986, and while at UCSD he established Dive San Diego, the largest competitive diving program in the country with more than 500 registered age-group divers.
 
In 1987, Olivo began working for Equitable/AXA Financial Services, and since its founding in 1991 has been president of Success Profiles, Inc., a performance measurement consulting firm in Bozeman, Montana. He was also the founding partner in 2003 of Healthcare Performance Solutions, a consulting firm that serves the not-for-profit healthcare industry. Olivo has also co-authored three best-selling business books:  Impending Crisis — Too Many Jobs, Too Few People with Roger Herman in 2003; Success Simplified with Dr. Stephen Covey in 2011; and Roadmap to Success with Dr. Ken Blanchard in 2012.