Current position | |
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Title | Assistant coach/recruiting coordinator |
Team | North Carolina |
Conference | ACC |
Biographical details | |
Born | Winchester, Virginia, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1995–1998 | Campbell |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2000 | Wofford (assistant) |
2001 | Barton (assistant) |
2002 | Campbell (assistant) |
2003–2007 | UNC Wilmington (pitching coach) |
2008 | Liberty (pitching coach) |
2009–2016 | North Carolina (assistant coach) |
2017–2024 | Liberty |
2025–present | North Carolina (assistant coach) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 246–181 |
Tournaments | NCAA: 3–6 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Awards | |
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Scott Jackson is an American baseball coach, who previously was the head baseball coach at Liberty University. Jackson attended college at Campbell University and played on the Campbell Fighting Camels baseball team. [1] Jackson served as an assistant baseball coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2009 to 2016. [2] [3] Jackson was named head baseball coach at Liberty University on July 17, 2016. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Jackson resigned on July 11, 2024 to go back to Chapel Hill as an assistant coach and recruitting coordinator at UNC. [11]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Liberty Flames (Big South Conference)(2017–2018) | |||||||||
2017 | Liberty | 32–23 | 16–8 | 2nd | Big South Tournament | ||||
2018 | Liberty | 32–26 | 17–10 | 3rd | Big South Tournament | ||||
Liberty: | 33–18 | ||||||||
Liberty Flames (ASUN Conference)(2019–2023) | |||||||||
2019 | Liberty | 43–21 | 15–9 | 2nd | NCAA Regional | ||||
2020 | Liberty | 10–7 | Season canceled on March 12 due to Coronavirus pandemic [12] | ||||||
2021 | Liberty | 41–16 | 19–2 | 1st (North) | NCAA Regional | ||||
2022 | Liberty | 37–23 | 19–11 | T-1st (East) | NCAA Regional | ||||
2023 | Liberty | 27–31 | 16–14 | 6th | ASUN tournament | ||||
Liberty: | 69–36 | ||||||||
Liberty Flames (Conference USA)(2024) | |||||||||
2024 | Liberty | 24–34 | 11–13 | 5th | C-USA tournament | ||||
Liberty: | 246–181 | 11–13 | |||||||
Total: | 246–181 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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