Jon Roby
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- Title:
- Diving Coach
Jon Roby enters his fifth season as the Foresters' diving coach in 2023-24.
Under Roby's direction, Harriett Townsend was the 3-meter champion and runner-up off the 1-meter board at the 2023 Midwest Conference Championship Meet. Lake Forest divers have combined to earn 290 points and post seven top-three finishes at the three MWC Championships since Roby joined the staff.
Diving is a family affair for Roby. With both parents as diving coaches, Roby's career in the sport began at Glenbrook North High School, where he was a three-time CSL North Conference Champion, three-time sectional champion, two-time NISCA All-American and two-time Illinois state runner-up. While in high school he also attended the AAU and USA Diving Junior National Championships as a junior and senior, earning All-American honors both seasons. Roby was recruited to and dove for the University of Minnesota and went on to compete in the 2011-14 USA Diving Seniors National Championships.
Since he stopped diving competitively, Roby has focused on coaching and mentoring divers of all ages. He is the head coach of Patriot Diving, based out of Stevenson High School, as well as the diving coach for the Stevenson girls and Highland Park boys diving teams. He has had eight state qualifiers, three all-conference honorees, and three all-sectional divers in his six years of coaching at the high school level.
