Bodon was the first head coach of the Missouri Southern men's soccer program, introducing the sport in 1972. The team's first games were played in 1976 as he served as the head coach for 11 seasons, later moving to the classroom full-time as a professor of communications until his retirement in 1996.

Bodon has a career record of 138-74-21 resulting in a .637 winning percentage. The field at Missouri Southern is named in his honor (Hal Bodon Field). After retiring from Southern, Bodon went on to serve as a missionary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and currently is an adjunct professor at Dixie State University in Utah. For the past three years, Bodon has been Director of Soccer Tournaments for the Huntsman World Senior Games in St. George, Utah. These games attract more than 10,000 athletes every year from every state in the union as well as 25 foreign countries. Bodon and his wife, Sonja, reside in Utah and have two sons, Peter and Michael. Peter graduated cum laude from Missouri Southern in 1981 with a degree in biology. Michael graduated from Brigham Young University in 1989 with a degree in finance and earned his MBA from the University of Utah in 1993.