Coach Spotlight: Bellbrook football’s Jeff Jenkins
BELLBROOK, Ohio — Name: Jeff Jenkins
High School attended: Bellbrook HS
College attended: Wilmington College
Coaching position: Head Varsity Football Coach
Years coaching: 15 total years
What life lesson do you want your players to take away from your sport?
To perform at a high level and achieve your goals, discipline, passion, selflessness, and consistency are a must.
Favorite quote:
2 Timothy 1:7 -For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
What is a key lesson you have learned in coaching youth?
It’s incredibly important to learn the story behind the kid to understand where they come from and what may or may not motivate them.
What is the most difficult part of coaching youth sports?
When a team or player falls just short of their goals. It’s a tough life lesson that things don’t always go as planned.
Tell me about your favorite coach.
My favorite coach is someone who would continually push me to maximize my potential. To expect the absolute best from me and to let me know if that wasn’t happening. This coach was also incredibly knowledgeable and showed a great deal of faith in me as a young HS player. He just so happens to be coaching alongside me now as Bellbrook HS’s Defensive Coordinator. That coach is longtime veteran coach Mark Rogal.
How do you define a winning season?
Winning more games than you lose while giving everything you have into that one season having the ability to have no regrets in the manner in which you prepared and represented Bellbrook.
What adjectives would current players use to describe you?
Driven, Determined, Demanding, Relentless, Loyal.
Favorite pro team:
Bengals – But the only team that really matters to me is the Golden Eagles!
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