Mark Fino is in his seventh season as the head coach of the men's and women's swimming & diving program at John Carroll University coming off three consecutive sweeps of the Ohio Athletic Conference championship crowns.
Career Accomplishments
-175 All-OAC Finishers
- 85 OAC Event Wins
- 71 JCU Records
- 29 OAC Records
- 5 OAC Diver of Year Awards
- 3 OAC Swimmer of Year Awards
- 6 OAC Championships (2017 Men and Women, 2018 Men and Women, 2019 Men and Women)
- 3 NCAA All-America Performances (2017, 2018)
- 5 NCAA Honorable Mention All-America Performances (2018, 2019)
- NCAA Provisional Qualifying Performances (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
- NCAA Championship Invitations (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Coaching Career
- 6 OAC Coach of Year Awards (2016 Women, 2017 Women, 2017 Men, 2018 Women, 2019 Women, 2019 Men)
Competitive Career
- Had a successful collegiate competitive career at Kalamazoo College, where he lettered four times and was a member of four league championship teams (1999-2002),
Before Carroll
Fino was as an assistant coach at Oberlin in 2002. He was elevated to the position of head women's coach in 2004, and then was tabbed to lead both the men's and women's programs beginning in 2006.
Over the course of his tenure, Fino became the all-time leader in career dual meet wins in women's swimming & diving at Oberlin, establishing program high water marks for best finish and most points scored at the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships.
Both the Yeomen and Yeowomen rewrote over 70 school records since Fino took over the programs, and in five of the last six years, he has had at least one student-athlete achieve an NCAA qualifying time or score.
Personal
Fino and his wife Veronica have two sons, Jonathan and Nicholas, and reside in University Heights.Â
