Scott Jackson

Biography

Scott Jackson is going into his second season since returning to North Carolina as assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator in July 2024 after spending eight seasons as the head coach at Liberty University from 2016 to 2024. The 2026 campaign will be Jackson's 10th overall season as an assistant coach with the Tar Heels. He was part of the coaching staff from 2009-2015 before leaving to take the head job at Liberty. Jackson posted a career record of 246-181 in eight years at Liberty and guided the Flames to five 30-plus win seasons, including a pair of 40-win campaigns. His 246 career wins and .576 winning percentage ranks third in program history among the program's seven head coaches. Jackson was the first coach in program history to lead the Flames to three NCAA Regional appearances (2019, 2021 and 2022), including a pair of at-large selections in 2021 and 2022. The Flames won a program-record 43 games in 2019 and captured their first ASUN Championship to secure the conference’s NCAA automatic bid to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014. After the season, he was named the ASUN Coach of the Year and the VaSID Coach of the Year Under his tutelage, Liberty had 15 players selected in the MLB Draft and 16 go on to the professional ranks during the last eight years. More than a dozen players received first-team all-conference honors and six were selected All-America. During his first eight seasons in Chapel Hill, Jackson helped North Carolina post a