Fork Union Military Academy Athletics

Hired on August 21, 2017

With over 30 years of coaching experience, Jon Larson arrived at Fork Union as the Director of Aquatics after spending four years at Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pa.
 
While leading the Freedom High School swimming program to several PIAA State Championships, Larson was also the CEO and head coach of the Emmaus Aquatic Club in Emmaus, Pa., since April of 2009. Larson was inducted in the Freedom High School Athletics Hall of Fame on January 13, 2017.
 
Prior to arriving in Bethlehem, Pa., Larson has worked with swimmers from elementary school age up through collegiate swimmers from the Pennsylvania area with the Big Cat Aquatics Club, a USA Swimming club team that serves youth within a 50-mile radius of the Penn State campus.
 
Prior to taking an assistant position at Penn State in 2006, a position he held for two years, Larson served as the McCoy Natatorium Pool Coordinator for 10 years in addition to his role as the head coach of Big Cat Aquatics. Among his duties were supervising the staff at McCoy, assisting in the scheduling of all events at the Natatorium, supervising all aquatic programs being held at McCoy, acting as the facility host for major competitions held at McCoy, and instructing exercise sport science classes along with at Penn State sports camps.
 
Prior to coming to the State College area, Larson served as head coach and program director of the Coronado Navy Swim Association in Coronado, Calif., from 1989-96. In this role, he was responsible for supervising a staff, various administrative duties, coordinating all training sessions for swimmers of all ability levels, and coordinating pool usage.
 
Larson was the Middle Atlantic Swimming Coach of the Year in 2005 and the head coach of the Middle Atlantic All-Star team from 1999-2000. He was also named Coach of the Year by the San Diego Swimming Coaches Association in 1992 and served as president of the San Diego Swimming Coaches' Association from 1992-93 while in Coronado.
 
Before heading to California, Larson was a student assistant coach at the University of Alabama after completing his eligibility there. He earned his undergraduate degree in Sports and Fitness Management in 1989 from Alabama.
 
He was a member of the swim team at Alabama for two years and swam at Arizona State for two years prior to that.