Shane Larson enters his third season with the Reivers for the 2023-24 season. 

Last season saw the Reivers add five more team national championships; football, women's soccer, cheerleading, competitive dance, and shotgun sports all brought titles back to Council Bluffs.  Additionally, the Reivers captured the Daktronics NATYCCA Cup in the NJCAA Scholarship Division for the third time in school history.

His second year at the helm of the department saw the Reivers have the most success in school history, winning national championships in volleyball, men's soccer, women's indoor and outdoor track & field, and shotgun sports.  The department added runner-up finishes in football, men's cross country, and men's outdoor track & field, along with third-place finishes in men's indoor track & field and women's golf.  Iowa Western took home the Daktronics NATYCCA Cup and the Learfield Directors' Cup for the second time in program history.

Larson had served as Director of Athletics at Cowley College since 2014, where he was a member of the president's leadership team and had direct oversight of 18 sports programs and 26 staff members. Since 2018 he has represented Cowley as Women's Region Director for NJCAA Region VI and was previously Assistant Men's Region Director for three years.

Prior to Cowley, Larson was head women's basketball coach at Kaskaskia (IL.) College and also served as assistant women's basketball coach and assistant registrar at Midland University in Fremont, NE. He was head women's basketball coach and coordinator of the Sports Management Program at Dana College in Blair, NE., from 2008 to 2010.

Larson has a Master of Science in Health Education from Fort Hays State (Kansas) University and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science from Bethany (Kansas) College. He earned an Associate's Degree from Cloud County (Kansas) Community College in 1997.

Larson and his wife, Jennie, have one son, Cash. Larson is a native of Waterville, Kansas.