Coach Ryan Larsen has been coaching Redwood’s team for only two years now. His path to Redwood, however, goes beneath the surface.
Born and raised in San Jose, California, Coach Larsen started swimming at the young age of five for his community recreational swim team.
Though Coach Larsen was great in his high school career, he had one problem. “I didn’t necessarily like my high school coach, so I definitely did not try as much. I was a young, dumb teenager. So of course, I knew better than my coach, so I didn’t try as hard as I could have,” said Coach Larsen…