Coach Karlsson, after winning 9 swimming Gold Medals in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, returned to coach swimming in Jeffco. He began coaching in the late 1980s for his old summer club team Mt. Vernon C.C.. He got his start in high school coaching at his alma mater Golden H.S. in the 1990s. He also coached at Standley Lake and Columbine H.S. before coming to Arvada West in 2000. He is also the boys coach at Golden H.S. and in the summer coaches at Lakewood C.C. He is married with two amazing, yet rambunctious, kids who love to ski, swim and play soccer. On his off time Coach Karlsson like to ride his bike for an insane amount of time; says it keeps him sane.
