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Jon Howell, Head Coach

Jon Howell, a former assistant coach at Clemson University and 11-time NCAA national champion, was named head coach of the men's and women's swimming and diving programs at Emory University in the summer of 1998.

In nine seasons at Emory, he has guided the Eagles to 16 top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III men's and women's national championships and 18 conference team titles. In 2006-07, both the Emory Men's and Women's squads claimed third place at the NCAA Championships. It marked the eighth consecutive campaign that the men's program had finished third or better, while the women, in addition to its back-to-back national crowns in 2005 and 2006, now have a six-year streak of finishing third or better at the National Championship.

Howell was honored as the national women's swimming Coach of the Year in 2002 and 2005. Howell and his assistants have been honored four times as conference Coaching Staff of the Year.

Since his arrival at Emory, the Eagles have recorded 16 individual national champions and an incredible 447 All-America certificates awarded to their swimmers. He has overseen five conference swimmers of the year, five conference divers of the year, seven conference rookies of the year and had led both the men's and women's team to a UAA title in each of his nine seasons with the team.

Howell was an assistant at Clemson, an NCAA Division I school, for two seasons in which the school claimed an Atlantic Coast Conference women's championship and attained 14 school record-setting performances.

Previously, Howell was the interim head coach at Kenyon College (Ohio) during the 1995-96 season in which his teams won the NCAA Division III national men's and women's championships. That season Kenyon won 14 national championships in individual or relay events, produced a Division III national record, established four new school records and swept the men's and women's conference titles.

Howell is a 1990 graduate of Kenyon, where he was 21-time All-American, primarily as a sprint freestyler. Among his 11 individual national championships are three consecutive in the 50-yard freestyle (1988-90), unmatched in NCAA Division III history in that event, and one in the 100-yard freestyle event (1990). Howell helped Kenyon to four national team championships and was twice voted the team's Most Valuable Performer. At the completion of his senior season, Howell was voted the school's Athlete of the Year.

His additional head coaching experience includes U.S. Swimming teams in Ohio and North Carolina. In the summer of 1995 Howell served as the United States' coach at the Hapoel Games in Israel.