Jason Howell

Biography

Jason Howell is in his seventh season, fifth consecutive, as a member of the coaching staff at UNC and his second as Director of Pitching Performance, Development and Analytics after joining the Tar Heel coaching staff as a volunteer assistant coach. Howell, who served as a graduate assistant coach with the Tar Heels in 2006 and 2007, returned to Carolina in the fall of 2020 after serving as the Area Scouting Supervisor of the Mid-Atlantic Region (N.C., Va., D.C., Md. and Del.) for the Chicago White Sox organization. He spent his first three seasons in Chapel Hill instructing the outfielders and coaching first base, before assuming his new role during the summer of 2023. Howell is instrumental in leading the program's enhancement and use of pitching-specific technologies, including Trackman and Edgertronic, and in implementing the Newtforce mound, which provides access to cutting-edge ground force data capture abilities. In his first season as Director of Pitching Performance and Development, the Tar Heels reached the College World Series for the 12th time in program history and captured their eighth ACC Coastal Division title. Matthew Matthijs and Dalton Pence earned All-America accolades and Jason DeCaro was named Freshman All-America. Junior Shea Sprague and DeCaro were both named Second Team All-ACC while Matthijs and Pence received third-team all-conference honors. Sprague ranked among the top-6 in the conference in fewest walks per nine innings (2nd), strikeout-to-walk