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Jeff Jenkins
* Athletic Director
* Head Baseball Coach
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Jeff
Jenkins, in his
20th year as head baseball coach at Rose-Hulman, enters his seventh 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 squad to the third NCAA
Division III Tournament appearance in his era as Fightin' Engineer
head coach. Rose-Hulman earned 32 victories for the second
best season in school history to help the Engineers earn a spot in
the Mideast Regional that was held on campus. Previously, the
Engineers qualified for the NCAA Division III Tournament in 1992 and
1996.
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 17 winning seasons in the
past 18 years.
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A Closer Look |
| Years at Rose-Hulman:
20th |
| Years of College Coaching: 23rd |
| Baseball Record: 470-287-1
(.621) at Rose-Hulman; career mark of 515-352-2 |
NCAA Tournament Appearances:
1992, 1996, 2008 |
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. |
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 victories and highest winning
percentage in school history (.621), has surpassed the 500-victory
plateau for his college coaching career. His career record is
515-352-2, and his record at Rose-Hulman is 470-287-1.
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 school’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 19 years,
Rose-Hulman has recorded seventeen 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 III’s 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 |
