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Larry Hoon

Larry Hoon

  • Class Year:
    1970
  • Induction Year:
    1983
  • Sport(s):
    Football and Wrestling

Larry Hoon was a four-year letterwinner in wrestling and a three-year letterwinner in football.  In wrestling, Hoon was a team captain as a senior, the 1968 Ohio Athletic Conference Champion and the Most Valuable Wrestler Award winner in 1970.   He was undefeated in dual meets for three years. On the football field, Hoon was an All-Ohio Athletic Conference first-team selection, two-time All-OAC honorable mentinon selection, two-time Dick Van Almen Outstanding Lineman Award recipient and a team captain as a senior. Off the field and mat, he was the president of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, sports editor of The Exponent and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society.

After BW, Hoon earned a Master's degree in physical education from Kent State University in 1975.  He was a teacher, assistant football coach and head wrestling coach at Cleveland Heights High School for 38 years. His 1976 wrestling team won the Class AAA Championship. Hoon was inducted to the Cleveland Heights, Twinsburg and Ohio Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fames.

Hoon and his wife Rhonda '71 reside in Mentor and the couple have three children Ericka, Allan and Adam.