Eric Mojock enters his 16th season as the head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at Mount Union in 2022-2023.
Record-setting performances, conference champions, All-Americans and national qualifiers have become the standard under Mojock. Over his career, Mojock has coached 255 individual/relay all-conference selections and six national qualifiers who earned 17 All-American honors.
Mojock led the Purple Raiders to back-to-back Ohio Athletic Conference women's swimming and diving titles in 2015 and 2016 after placing second in the conference each of the previous five seasons and in 2017. They are the first ever women's swimming team titles in school history.
The efforts by he and his staff have been recognized by their peers as they have won OAC Coaching Staff of the Year honors four times (2010, 2012, 2015,2022). Mojock has coached three OAC Women's Swimmers of the Year (Courtney Gabel in 2013 and Dana Lautenschleger in 2016 and 2017) and a two-time OAC Women's Diver of the Year (Mary Vallinger in 2008 and 2009)
On the men's side, Mojock has led the Raiders to four straight second place finishes and coached Tyler Moore to OAC Men's Swimmer of the Year honors in 2014 and 2015 and Nathan Levengood to OAC Diver of the Year honors in 2015.
His coaching style can be best described as technique first. “A solid foundation of stroke technique combined with a strong swimming IQ will unlock the potential of swimmers at every level.”
Mojock earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa. While at Westminster, he was a four-year letterwinner, team captain, NCAA Division II All-American and spent two seasons as an assistant swim coach. In 2014, Mojock was inducted into the Westminster Sports Hall of Fame.
updated 3/20/17
