Jennifer Rockwood

Jennifer Rockwood is an American soccer coach, and the head coach for the BYU Cougars women's soccer team, a position she has held since 1989. She is the only coach the school recognizes since the club joined NCAA competition in 1995.[1]

Early life

Rockwood was born to Jerry and Kae Rockwood as the oldest of five children, with her brothers being named Jon, Jason, Jared, and Jeffrey. Throughout junior high and high school Rockwood acted as a four-sport athlete, in soccer, basketball, softball, and track. Rockwood was offered a basketball scholarship at Ricks College, which she accepted in the fall of 1984, but her one true desire was soccer. After participating in basketball in the Fall-winter of 1984-85, Rockwood transferred and enrolled at Brigham Young University. Rockwood would play with the Cougars club team from 1985-1988, and as a senior Rockwood was placed in charge of scheduling and budgets for the club team.[2]

Coaching

Rockwood became the club teams head coach in 1989 and led them to two Western National Collegiate Club soccer Association (NCCSA) Championships in 1993 and 1994. In 1995 BYU officially recognized women's soccer as a NCAA sport. Rockwood was retained and became the Cougars first NCAA women's soccer coach.[3] Rockwood began to have immediate success. In her 19 years as head coach, Rockwood's Cougars have made the NCAA tournament 16 times. In the October 19, 2013 match vs. the San Francisco Dons, Rockwood would amass her 300th win.[3] Twice Rockwood has led the Cougars to the NCAA's Elite 8: 2003[4] and 2012.[5] Athletes playing for Rockwood have seen continual success over those 19 seasons. 38 of Rockwood's players have gone on to win All-American awards.[6]

Head Coaching Record

Neither the WAC nor the WCC held a conference tournament, so the highest achievement BYU could attain during those regular seasons was the regular season title.

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
BYU (Western Athletic Conference) (1995–1998)
1995 BYU 11–8–1 4–1–1 3rd
1996 BYU 22–1–1 6–1–0 2nd
1997 BYU 19–4–1 6–1–0 2nd NCAA 1st Round
1998 BYU 20–5–0 6–1–0 2nd NCAA 3rd Round
BYU (Mountain West Conference) (1999–2010)
1999 BYU 21–4–0 5–1–0 2nd NCAA 2nd Round
2000 BYU 19–4–1 6–0–0 1st NCAA 2nd Round
2001 BYU 14–7–1 5–1–0 1st NCAA 2nd Round
2002 BYU 16–6–0 6–0–0 1st NCAA 1st Round
2003 BYU 16–7–3 4–2–0 2nd NCAA Elite 8
2004 BYU 7–10–4 3–2–1 2nd
2005 BYU 15–2–4 4–1–2 3rd NCAA 1st Round
2006 BYU 13–4–4 5–1–1 2nd NCAA 1st Round
2007 BYU 17–4–2 4–3–0 3rd NCAA 1st Round
2008 BYU 18–5–1 7–0–0 1st NCAA 2nd Round
2009 BYU 18–4–2 6–0–1 1st NCAA 2nd Round
2010 BYU 16–3–3 5–1–1 2nd NCAA 1st Round
BYU (West Coast Conference) (2011–present)
2011 BYU 11–5–3 5–2–1 4th
2012 BYU 20–2–2 7–0–1 1st NCAA Elite 8
2013 BYU 16–5–2 8–1–0 T-1st NCAA 2nd Round
2014 BYU 13–5–3 7–1–1 1st NCAA 1st Round
2015 BYU 16–3–2 7–1–1 1st NCAA 2nd Round
2016 BYU 0–0–0 0–0–0
BYU: 338–98–40 (.752) 116–21–11 (.821)
Total: 338–98–40 (.752)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

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