Head Coach - Jeff Jenkins

Coach Jeff Jenkins brings an overall record of 96-63 as he begins his sixth season as the head coach for the Blinn women’s basketball program.

He has the second-longest tenure among Lady Buc head coaches since the program was begun in 1978. He ranks only behind Wayne Williams who held the post for 10 seasons and finished with a 176-128 record.

Jenkins is coming off one of his best seasons ever with a 22-11 record and a runner-up finish at the Region 14 regional tournament. In 2004-2005, the team’s 24-9 record tied the 1988-89 Lady Bucs for the most single-season wins in school history. It was also the first time since 1990-91 that the Lady Bucs reached the regional finals. That year Jenkins was named Co-Coach of the Year in Region 14.

This will be his ninth season as a head coach. He has an overall record of 149-101.

He spent three years at Paris Junior College before coming to Blinn in 2002. Prior to his arrival at Paris, the women’s basketball team had won four games. His first season saw a 10-game turnaround, and the team finished 14-16. In his third and final season the team finished 23-8 and broke the school record for wins in a season (the previous record was 17). His team made the Region 14 Tournament, and Jenkins was named Co-Coach of the Year in the region.

A native of Round Rock, he played his collegiate basketball at Midwestern State University and Howard Payne University. He was named team captain at Howard Payne during his junior and senior seasons. During his senior season the team won the TIAA Conference and he was invited to the NAIA II National Tournament. He was named to the all-conference academic team both seasons and received his bachelor’s degree in sport and exercise science.

Jenkins started his coaching career in 1995 under former Blinn coach Wayne Williams. He worked under Williams for two seasons at Midwestern State University where during that time he received his master’s degree in physical education. In 1997 he was named full-time assistant coach at Midwestern State, working under Jennifer Fasnacht-Hull, who played her collegiate basketball at Blinn and Texas A&M. She also spent one season at Blinn as an assistant coach.

Jenkins and his wife Tiffany have been married for 11 years. They have two daughters Allyson (9) and Lindy (6). He enjoys spending his free time with Tiffany in supporting Allyson and Lindy in all of their numerous school and extra-curricular activities.

Assistant Coach Mark Caldwell

Mark Caldwell begins his first season on the Blinn College coaching staff.

The Lake Charles, La., native earned his master’s degree in sport management at the University of Southern Mississippi in May 2007. At USM he was a graduate assistant for the Office of Community Service Learning, a department which helped rebuild homes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast that were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina. He was also assistant men’s basketball coach at Petal High School in Petal, Miss., for the 2006 season. 

He received his undergraduate degree in communications at McNeese State University in December 2004.

Caldwell received an athletic scholarship to play tennis at Copiah Lincoln Community College in Wesson, Miss., where he was the No. 1 player from 2000-2002 and was state and regional champion in 2001. 

He is a 2000 graduate of Sam Houston High School in Lake Charles, where he was a three-year starter in basketball and holds the school’s all-time assist record. He earned first-team all-district honors in tennis four years and was first-team all-state three years.

Caldwell is single and enjoys spending time with his family – parents Don and Sue, brother Adam, sister-in-law Shelley, niece Halle, and as of Nov. 12, 2007, his nephew Damon.