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Jonathan Schimming, a former Division II athlete and assistant coach, joined the Golden Eagles' swimming & diving coaching staff in 2023. He enters his second season as an assistant coach in the 2024-25 season.

In 2023-24, the Golden Eagles men's swimming team enjoyed their best finish at the conference championship meet in more than a decade, placing second for their best standing since 2011. Clarion men combined for three individual and one relay conference championships over the course of the week in Carlisle, taking home the gold in the 100 Fly, the 200 Fly, the 100 Back and the 400 Medley Relay. They also racked up a host of other finals appearances that week, stacking points in events like the 200 IM, in which they had four finalists. Individually, the duo of Connor Cary and David Bocci both earned bids to the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships in March. That duo combined for three All-America Honorable Mention honors over the course of the week at the SPIRE Center, with both cracking the top-16 in the 200 Fly and Cary doing so in the 100 Fly. On the women's side of things, Hannah Greenway made NCAA B cuts in the 50 Free and the 100 Free in 2023-24, becoming the first Golden Eagle woman to qualify for the NCAA Championships since Gabriella Schaffer in 2014. 

A member of Concordia University Irvine's 2019 Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference (PCSC) championship team, Schimming was previously a graduate assistant coach at Drury from 2021-23, helping the Panthers finish as one of the best teams in the nation. The Drury men were national runners-up in 2023, while the women's team placed third in the country. Schimming worked with 30 All-Americans, 15 Division II national champions and two Olympians while at Drury, working primarily with the sprinters but also spending time with all groups.

A scholarship athlete at CUI from 2015-19, Schimming helped the Eagles win a PCSC conference championship in his senior season. During his time as a student-athlete he also worked as the freshman/sophomore swim coach at Fountain Valley High School, and after graduation spent two years as the assistant varsity swim coach at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif. Schimming coached five athletes to a top-16 placement at the Division 1 CIF championships in 2021, and mentored the girl's swimming team to a fifth place finish.
 
A native of Norco, Calif., Schimming earned his Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology from Concordia University Irvine in 2019. He went on to graduate with a Masters degree in Communications at Drury in 2023.