[1] Akin attended the Saint Leo University, playing on the men's NCAA Division II soccer team from 1995 to 1998.
From 2008 to 2009, Akin was a player-assistant coach with the Atlanta Eclipse of the Premier Arena Soccer League.
[8] In February 2003, Oglethorpe University hired Akins as the school's men's soccer coach.
[9] He also served as an assistant coach with the Atlanta Eclipse of the Premier Arena Soccer League during the 2007–2008 season.
In the spring of 2009, the position as Marist School 7th/8th soccer coach was honorably bestowed upon Jon Akin.