Breck high school hockey coach biography

Les Larson prides himself on being an active, self-sufficient sort of guy.

He mows his grass. He chops his firewood. He carries his golf clubs.

About a month ago, not long after Larson felt a dull ache in his left arm and burning pain in his chest, all of that changed.

After undergoing triple-bypass heart surgery, the year-old coach of defending Class A state champion Breck wasn’t even allowed to drive himself to practice.

That task, among numerous others, has fallen on Peter Larson, Les’ year-old son and Mustangs assistant coach.

With Les Larson relegated to the bench during practices (doctors won’t let him lace up his skates for another month or so) and in the stands during preseason scrimmages, Peter Larson, a St.

John’s graduate working on his graduate degree in teaching, has taken over many of his father’s duties albeit with dad right there, peering over his shoulder.

“With the coaching he hasn’t been too bad as a