Last season Jackson watched his pitching staff collect 32 wins en route to the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. Lead by a strong group of upper class men, Jackson’s staff threw a pair of shut outs and struck out an amazing 188 more batters than it walked.

Continuing a streak of success, Jackson once again enjoyed the Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft as a pair of senior jag hurlers were selected to play professional baseball. Right-handers Eric Gonzalez and Kevin Nabors each had their names called, Gonzalez in the 24 round by the San Diego Padres and Nabors in the 26th by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Looking ahead to the 2009 season, Jackson’s staff will be anchored by junior left-handers Lance Baxter and Chris LaGrow along with senior Brandon Sage. With the return of right-hander Dan Goldberg from Tommy John Surgery and the addition of the 2008 recruiting class, USA’s pitching staff looks forward to another strong season.

After pitching one season at Tallahassee Community College in 1997, Jackson moved to Santé Fe Community College where he finished his playing career. In 1999, he moved back to Tallahassee in order to finish his degree at Florida State. He graduated from FSU with a degree in Physical Education before completing his masters in Sports Administration.

Jackson started his coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater of Florida High School. After two seasons at FHS, Jackson became the pitching coach at North Florida Community College, where he got his start in recruiting.

In 2003 he moved to the Division I level as the pitching coach for Mercer. In the 2004 and 2005 seasons, Jackson’s pitching staff set the school record for shut outs in a season.

Before the 2006 season, Jackson’s hard work was rewarded as he was named as the recruiting coordinator as well as the pitching coach for the Mercer Bears. He signed the largest recruiting class in school history in the off-season of 2005-06. Under the three years under Jackson, the schools RPI dropped form 215th in the nation to 92nd.

At Mercer, Jackson coached All-American closer Andrew Urena. Along with Urena, Brantley New was also drafted in 2006 out of Mercer.

Since becoming a pitching coach, Jackson has had five pitchers make the jump to professional baseball.

Jackson currently lives in Mobile.