Outdated Dominion coach Jeff Jones is looking it a profession.
Jones, who stepped away a number of instances attributable to well being points this season, is retiring from the game after 32 seasons as a head coach, the college introduced on Monday.
A profession to recollect 🏆
✍️ 560 Profession Wins (263 at Outdated Dominion)
✍️ 2x Coach of the Yr (09’ American, 19’ C-USA)
✍️ 8 NCAA Event Appearances
✍️ Lead 3 Totally different Packages to NCAA Event
✍️ Lead Outdated Dominion to 1st ever Prime 25 Rating in 2015
✍️ Retires as nineteenth… pic.twitter.com/Cj6wTDf4J6— ODU Males’s Basketball (@ODU_MBB) February 26, 2024
Jones first skilled a coronary heart assault in December forward of Outdated Dominion’s look on the Diamond Head Traditional in Hawaii. He then introduced final month that he wanted to step away for the remainder of the 2023-24 season to endure prostate most cancers therapies. The 63-year-old was first recognized with prostate most cancers in 2015, and was once more in 2018. Assistant coach Kieran Donohue has led this system on an interim foundation in Jones’ absence.
Jones first took over at Outdated Dominion in 2013. He’s led the Monarchs for the previous 11 seasons and compiled a 203-131 report there. They received each a regular-season and conference-tournament title in 2019, too, which resulted of their solely NCAA match look below Jones.
Earlier than touchdown at Outdated Dominion, Jones spent 13 seasons teaching at American and one other eight seasons at Virginia. In whole, he’s received 560 video games, six regular-season convention titles, reached the NCAA match eight instances and received the NIT title in 1992.
“I really feel extraordinarily blessed to have had the chance to teach school basketball for 41 years,” Jones stated in a press release. “These previous 11 years at Outdated Dominion College have been particularly rewarding … Basketball has given me a life that exceeded all of my expectations. It’s onerous to step away from teaching, however I’ll all the time be grateful to the individuals alongside the best way who made this profession doable. Thanks to the gamers, the assistants, the directors, the followers, the households, and the buddies who’ve been a part of this journey — you may be a member of my staff for all times.”
Outdated Dominion presently holds a 7-22 report this season, which has it in final place within the Solar Belt standings. The Monarchs will shut out their common season this week towards Appalachian State and Georgia Southern.
