John Webb grew up in New Albany, Indiana, where he was the 100-yard freestyle state champion during his senior year at New Albany High School. He accepted a swimming scholarship to Indiana State University and was a NAIA and NCAA (college division) all-American. When he graduated, he held seven ISU swimming records. John began coaching at Central High School in South Bend, Indiana, where he developed another state swimming record holder in the 50 freestyle. John then started a new swimming program at Decatur High School in Indianapolis and after two years there, became a graduate assistant at Indiana University, where he had the opportunity to study under the legendary Coach “Doc” Counsilman. John became involved in Masters swimming and won the 200-yard backstroke at the national Masters meet in 1971. After earning his master’s degree at Indiana, he accepted a job at Clinton High School in Iowa where he brought the swimming program back to a respected competitive level. After four years at Clinton HS, he was named the aquatics coordinator for the Pasadena Independent School District in Pasadena, Texas. John had his work cut out as none of the four PISD schools had ever won any team title or qualified any swimmers to the UIL state swimming meet. In John’s final year of coaching there, the boys’ team at Pasadena High School won the regional meet, beating Bellaire High School and qualified 19 swimmers from PISD to the state meet. He then accepted the head swimming coach position at Cypress Creek High School in 1980 and became involved at the national level through NISCA, and as the Special Projects chairman he organized the first coaching clinics at the NISCA national meetings. He was voted President of NISCA in 1983 and was awarded the Outstanding Service Award in 1986. It was at Cypress Creek that his talents would allow him to develop a program that became one of the most successful programs in water polo and swimming in the nation. His 23 years at Cypress Creek produced more than 200 all-Americans in both sports. His boys’ team won back-to-back national titles and were sponsored by Swimming World Magazine. Two of the most memorable coaching accomplishments in his career were coaching his son, Mike, to high school all-American status in both water polo and swimming, and coaching Jamie Rauch, who won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney. At retirement, John focused on water polo officiating. He organized and developed a state-wide water polo officials’ organization that was instrumental in supporting the UIL to recognize water polo as a bona fide UIL sport.