Board of Directors

Jonah Turner is from Raleigh, NC where he grew up swimming year round and also swam for Sanderson High School where he graduated from in 1997. After high school, he continued his swimming career in college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a distance swimmer specializing in the 1650yd Freestyle, 1000yd Freestyle, 500yd Freestyle, and 200yd Butterfly.

After graduating from Carolina in 2001, Jonah became the Head Coach of the Cardinal Gibbons High School Swim Team where he has built one of the most successful high school programs in NC. He just finished his 17th season as the head coach and has had the good fortune of coaching over 21 High School All-American swimmers and won 17 State Championship titles during his tenure at Cardinal Gibbons. Jonah enjoy working with his fellow coaches to help swimmers improve, learn and achieve the valuable life lessons that swimming brings in and out of the water.

Outside of coaching Cardinal Gibbons, Jonah works for Cardinal Health as a Region Director of Core Account Management for the Acute market with responsibility for 8 sales reps covering SC/NC/VA. He also enjoys spending time and traveling with his wife Stephanie and hanging out with their 2.5yr old boy Jackson and 5yr old girl Brooklyn, who you will often find on the pool deck yelling Go Gibbons. He also loves playing with his dog Zoey (French Bulldog).