The 2016-17 season will be the 41st for
Jon Lederhouse as head swimming coach and aquatics director at Wheaton College. During this time, Wheaton teams have established themselves as the major small college swimming power in Illinois, consistently placing swimmers in the NCAA Division III National Championship finals.
Wheaton has enjoyed 12 top-10 national finishes by its men's team and 10 by its women's team and more than 75 Wheaton swimmers and divers have earned All-American honors during Lederhouse's tenure. Eight Wheaton swimmers have won individual national event championships.
The Thunder women's program has won 19-straight CCIW Championships from 1998-2016 and finished 10th at the 2013 and 2016 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming Championships and 12th at the 2008 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming Championships. And in 2007, Lederhouse was named the CCIW "Coach of the Year" in both men's and women's swimming as he guided each of the Thunder programs to CCIW Championships.
In 2006, the men's swim team finished seventh and the women's swim team finished 11th at the NCAA Division III Championships. Lederhouse led the men's swim team to an 11th-place finish and the women's swim team to a 14th place finish at the 2005 Division III Championships. In 2004, the men finished eighth and the women placed 17th.
In the 2002-03 season both the men's and women's teams placed in the top 10 nationally for the third year in a row as the women placed seventh and the men sixth. The 2000-01 women's team took sixth place and the men's team took seventh place, the 1989-90 men's team placed third and the 1990-91 men's team was fourth at the NCAA Division III National Championships. In 1999-2000, the women's team placed fifth while both the 1989-1999 and 1991-92 women's teams placed eighth.
Lederhouse was named the NCAA D-III Women's Team Coach of the Year in 2000. The Illinois Swimming Association has named Lederhouse Coach of the Year numerous times, most recently as State Men's Swim Coach of the Year in 2003. Since 1974, Lederhouse has been coaching swimmers at all levels from summer novice teams to Olympic Trial qualifiers. He is an ASCA Level 5 certified coach, and holds Master and Distinguished Coach certificates.
As an undergraduate at Wheaton College, Lederhouse was an All-American swimmer at Wheaton winning the 1971 and 1972 NCAA Division II 100-yard backstroke championships and qualified both seasons for the NCAA Division I National Championships in that event. He was an NCAA All-American in the 200 individual medley (1972-74), 200 backstroke (1971-74), and 100 backstroke (1971-74).
Lederhouse once held CCIW records and won CCIW titles in seven events: 50 freestyle (1971, 1974), 100 freestyle (1972, 1974), 200 freestyle (1972), 100 butterfly (1973), 200 butterfly (1973), 400 individual medley (1971), and 100 backstroke (1971 and 1974).
He also won Illinois Private College championships in the 100 and 200 backstroke and 200 and 400 individual medley, and held Illinois Small College State records and/or Wheaton varsity records in eleven events: 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1000 freestyle; 100 and 200 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; and 200 and 400 individual medley.
Lederhouse and his wife, Jill, professor and Chair of the Wheaton College Department of Education, have three children and reside in Wheaton.
