Former All-Ivy League linebacker Scott Larkee, the Gridiron Club of Boston's 2012 Assistant Coach of the Year, is in his fifth season as defensive coordinator at Harvard and his eighth total season across two stints as an assistant coach at his alma mater in 2013.

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Larkee led one of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision’s top defenses in 2012. The Crimson led the nation in rushing defense (69.4 yards allowed per game) and sacks (4.2 per game) while ranking eighth nationally in scoring defense (17.4 points allowed per game). Harvard held six of its 10 opponents to 14 points or fewer, and three of those opponents—including shutout victim Columbia—scored seven points or fewer.

A year earlier, Larkee's defense ranked sixth nationally against the rush and fifth in scoring defense, behind Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Josue Ortiz. In each of Larkee’s four seasons guiding the defense, Harvard has placed at least two defensive players on the All-Ivy League first team and has totaled 32 All-Ivy mentions (nine first-team selections, 14 second-team picks, nine honorable mentions).

A 1999 Harvard graduate, Larkee is in the seventh season of his current tour of duty with the Crimson. He returned to his alma mater in 2007, coaching the running backs while serving as the program's recruiting coordinator. In 2008, he assumed the team's special teams coordinator position and also worked with the linebackers. In 2009, Larkee took over as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.

Larkee is responsible for recruiting the northeastern United States including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Since Larkee began working with Harvard's linebackers in 2008, Crimson players at that position have accounted for 11 All-Ivy League selections.

Larkee previously served as an assistant coach for the Crimson's 2001 Ivy League championship team. He coached the outside linebackers for Harvard’s 9-0 squad, its first since 1913 to go unbeaten and untied.

Before returning to Cambridge, Larkee had been a graduate assistant at Boston College, helping the Eagles to back-to-back bowl appearances.

Larkee had a brief stint as a defensive assistant at Columbia, which came on the heels of a three-year tenure as an assistant at Division III Bates College. He served as the Bobcats' special teams coordinator, linebackers coach and strength and conditioning coordinator from 2002 to ’04.

Larkee also has served as an assistant at Bowdoin College for the 1999 and 2000 seasons and was a player/coach with Les Cougars de St. Ouen l'Aumone (a French club team) in 2001.

A second-team All-Ivy League selection as a senior, Larkee graduated from Harvard in third place on the Crimson's career tackles chart (243). He recorded 98 tackles with six pass breakups and was a starter on Harvard's 1997 Ivy League championship team. Larkee also earned the team's Henry N. Lamar Award, given to the Harvard football senior who, through dedication to the program and concern for his fellow man, has made a unique contribution to the team.

Larkee holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Harvard.

Larkee and his wife, former Crimson field hockey All-American Judy (Collins) Larkee ’99, live in Norwood, Mass., with daughters Shea (6) and Maureen (3) and sons Sam (5) and Joe (2).