John Morrison Position: Head Coach (Eighth Season) Alma Mater: North Carolina '90

John Morrison is entering his eighth year as the head coach of the Navy women's swimming program, as well as his 12th year of being associated with the team.

Morrison and the Mids have posted undefeated regular seasons in two of the last three seasons, including a 10-0 mark during the 2010-11 campaign. Navy would follow last year's regular season performance by placing second at the Patriot League Championship.

Last season's success came on the heels of a record-breaking 2009-10 season for the Mids. After posting a 10-1 record during the regular season, with Navy's lone loss coming to No. 11 Virginia, the Mids totaled 14 event victories on their way to winning the Patriot League title for the first time in three years. Additionally, 2010 graduates Tara Chapmon and Thuy-Mi Dinh made their second and third, respectively, appearances at the NCAA Championship in 2010.

The recipient of the Patriot League Coach-of-the-Year award three times in the last five years, Morrison has guided the Mids to a pair of league crowns, four second-place showings and a third-place finish at the meet in his time with the program. A Navy swimmer has earned at least a share of five league swimmer-of-the-year accolades during Morrison's seven years, while the Mids have won a league-best 55 swimming event titles under Morrison's guidance.

The program also has made strides at national events during Morrison's tenure. A contingent of Navy swimmers are regular participants in U.S. Swimming meets such as the USA Short Course National Championship, ConocoPhillips National Championship and the World Championship Trials. The 2008 season saw Dinh become the first women's swimmer in Patriot League history to attain an `A' cut qualifying time for the NCAA Championship, then she and Chapmon advanced to the national meet in both 2009 and `10. Additionally, Laura Gorinski posted a pair of 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying times during the 2010-11 season.

Navy also posted the program's first undefeated season during the 2008-09 campaign, part of a winning streak that would span to 25 meets before the aforementioned loss to the Cavaliers. The Mids have compiled a 47-2 record over the last four years and a 74-14 record in all under Morrison's leadership. In addition to the team's success in the water, the program under Morrison has been regularly recognized as an Academic All-America Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America and has accounted for 56 placings on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll over the last seven seasons.

Morrison's hiring in 2004 returned him to The Yard where he served as an assistant coach to Dick Purdy for four seasons beginning in the fall of 1993. The Purdy-Morrison duo coached the Mids to a 33-14 record and to league titles during each of its four years together.

After leaving Navy following the 1996-97 school year, Morrison served as a volunteer assistant men's coach at Tennessee during the 1997-98 season in which the Volunteers placed fourth at the NCAA Championship, followed by one year as an assistant at Rutgers. After serving as the head coach and aquatics director at the Ocean County YMCA in his hometown of Toms River, N.J., for two years starting in 1999, he was named as the head swimming coach at Lehigh in 2001. Morrison coached the Mountain Hawks to a combined 31-27 record during his three seasons in Bethlehem, a period highlighted by the men's team winning the 2002 Patriot League title.

A successful athlete in his own right, Morrison earned four letters in swimming and in golf while a student-athlete at Toms River High School and was selected as a member of the school's inaugural Hall of Fame class in the spring of 2004. He would go on to earn four letters in swimming at North Carolina, helping the Tar Heels win a pair of Atlantic Coast Conference titles in the process.

Morrison would enter the coaching ranks in 1991 as an assistant swimming coach at Washington & Lee where he helped coach four NCAA Division III All-Americans. He also assisted with the school's 1992 water polo team that won the Division III Eastern Championship and served as the interim golf coach.

Morrison and his wife, Amy, have a 12-year-old son, John, and an eight-year-old daughter, Avery Grace.