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Jeff Jenkins
* Athletic Director
* Head Baseball Coach
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Coach!
Jeff Jenkins, in his 21st
year as head baseball coach at Rose-Hulman, enters his eighth year
as director of athletics this season. Jenkins previously served as
the associate athletic director for 13 years.
Jenkins has rewritten the Rose-Hulman
single-season school record for victories in baseball five times,
including during the 2004 season for a team that won 36 games and
the second consecutive Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
Eastern Division baseball championship.
Jenkins led the 2008 and 2009 squads to
consecutive NCAA Division III Tournament appearances for the first
time in school history. The Fightin' Engineers also won their first
conference tournament title since 1996 last spring.
Rose-Hulman has also qualified for the NCAA
Division III National Tournament four times in the Jeff Jenkins era.
He has also led squads to three conference tournament and two
regular season league titles at the college.
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A Closer Look |
| Years at Rose-Hulman:
21st |
| Years of College Coaching: 24th |
| Baseball Record: 502-301-1
(.625) at Rose-Hulman; career mark of 557-366-2 |
NCAA Tournament Appearances:
1992, 1996, 2008, 2009 |
Coaching Honors:
1999 -- SCAC Tri-Coach of the Year
1992 & 1996 -- ICAC Coach of the Year
1996-2001 -- Chairman NCAA III Mideast Regional Committee |
College Coaching Experience:
1990-present: Rose-Hulman
1989: Bethany College
1987-88: Heidelberg College |
| Education: B.S., Ohio
Northern University, 1981. |
The Engineers won three of their last four SCAC
Eastern Division titles, before transferring to the Heartland
Collegiate Athletic Conference in 2007. Rose-Hulman also won four
division titles in their eight years in the SCAC and has recorded 18
winning seasons in the past 19 years.
As associate athletic director for the decade
prior to his promotion, Jenkins was one of several forces behind the
college's move to coeducational athletics in 1995, construction of
the Sports and Recreation Center, and the school's hosting roles in
the NCAA III National Championships for women's basketball, golf and
indoor track and field.
Rose-Hulman's baseball facilities have also
improved dramatically under Jenkins' watch. His efforts helped the
Engineers land the 2005, 2006 and 2008 NCAA Division III Mideast
Baseball Regionals, which sent Wooster, Marietta and Adrian into the
Division III World Series. Lights were added to the facility in
2001, with new dugouts and a club-seat, press box structure
completed in 2004.
Jenkins, who owns the most wins and highest
winning percentage in school history (.625), has surpassed the
500-victory plateau for his college coaching career. His career
record is 547-366-2, and his Rose-Hulman record is 502-301-1.
Jenkins was named the Indiana Collegiate Athletic
Conference's Coach of the Year in both 1992 and 1996. He earned the
honor in 1996 after leading the Engineers to a school record 28 wins
and the college's third straight Indiana Collegiate Athletic
Conference Championship. The Engineers reached the NCAA III
Tournament in both 1992 and 1996, and won both ICAC regular season
and tournament titles in 1996.
Rose-Hulman also claimed the 1994 regular season
ICAC championship and won the 1995 conference baseball tournament.
Prior to Jenkins' arrival on campus, the Engineers had recorded just
one 20-win season. In the previous 20 years, Rose-Hulman has
recorded eighteen 20-win campaigns.
Rose-Hulman has also sent two players to minor
league baseball under Jenkins. Pitchers Eric Tryon and Matt Sims
continued their careers after earning their Rose-Hulman degrees,
with Tryon reaching the AA level in the Cincinnati Reds
organization. Tryon, 1999 graduate Andy Cain and 2008 graduate
Michael Matsui earned All-American honors from the American Baseball
Coaches Association under Jenkins' watch.
Jenkins started his coaching career at Heidelberg
College in Ohio in 1987, inheriting a team that won only six games
in the four previous seasons. He led Heidelberg to 15 wins in his
first season, and was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Coach of
the Year in 1988. He coached at Bethany College (W.V.) one season
before coming to Rose-Hulman.
The Urbana, Ohio, native and Ohio Northern
University graduate chaired the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional
Committee from 1996-2001. That committee makes the selection of
participants for the NCAA III Tournament.
Jenkins and his wife, Cindy, have two sons, Travis
and Justin.
E-mail:
jeffrey.jenkins@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8209
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Sean Bendel
* Assistant Baseball Coach
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Sean Bendel begins his 12th season as
assistant baseball coach at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology this
fall.
Bendel served as an assistant coach at
Metropolitan State College for three years and received a bachelor's
degree in human performance, sport, and leisure in 1997.
The Engineers have compiled a record of 296-169-1
in the 11 seasons that Bendel has served as assistant coach.
Team accomplishments in the last decade include a school record 36
wins in 2004; trips to the NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament in
2008 and 2009; a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball
Tournament title in 2009; and Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Eastern Division
Championships in 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2006.
He also served as an assistant football and
baseball coach at Northglenn High School in Colorado from 1996-98
and has been involved in coaching at various levels for nearly 25
years.
Bendel and his wife Kathleen relocated to Terre
Haute in 1998. Bendel earned a master's degree in
physical education and coaching at Indiana State in December 1999.
E-mail:
sean.bendel@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8967
Fax: (812) 877-8407
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