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 team's 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 an NCAA sport. Rockwood was retained and became the Cougars first NCAA women's soccer coach.[3] Rockwood began to have immediate success. In her 25 years as head coach, Rockwood's Cougars have made the NCAA tournament 19 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 25 seasons. 46 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.

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
BYU (Western Athletic Conference) (1995–1998)
1995 BYU 11–8–14–1–13rd
1996 BYU 22–1–16–1–02nd
1997 BYU 19–4–16–1–02ndNCAA 1st Round
1998 BYU 20–5–06–1–02ndNCAA 3rd Round
BYU (Mountain West Conference) (1999–2010)
1999 BYU 21–4–05–1–01stNCAA 2nd Round
2000 BYU 19–4–16–0–01stNCAA 2nd Round
2001 BYU 14–7–15–1–01stNCAA 2nd Round
2002 BYU 16–6–06–0–01stNCAA 1st Round
2003 BYU 16–7–34–2–02ndNCAA Elite 8
2004 BYU 7–10–43–2–12nd
2005 BYU 15–2–44–1–23rdNCAA 1st Round
2006 BYU 13–4–45–1–12ndNCAA 1st Round
2007 BYU 17–4–24–3–03rdNCAA 1st Round
2008 BYU 18–5–17–0–01stNCAA 2nd Round
2009 BYU 18–4–26–0–11stNCAA 2nd Round
2010 BYU 16–3–35–1–12ndNCAA 1st Round
BYU (West Coast Conference) (2011–present)
2011 BYU 11–5–35–2–14th
2012 BYU 20–2–27–0–11stNCAA Elite 8
2013 BYU 16–5–28–1–0T-1stNCAA 2nd Round
2014 BYU 13–5–37–1–11stNCAA 1st Round
2015 BYU 16–3–27–1–11stNCAA 2nd Round
2016 BYU 18–3–17–1–11stNCAA 3rd Round
2017 BYU 7-8-44-4-14th
2018 BYU 13-5-18-11stNCAA 1st Round
2019 BYU 21-0-18-0-11stNCAA Elite 8
BYU: 396–114–47 (.753)143–27–14 (.815)
Total:396–114–47 (.754)

      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
  1. "BYU women's soccer: Coach Rockwood learns to loosen up".
  2. "Jennifer Rockwood on BYUtv's Legends".
  3. "Reaching 300, one win at a time for BYU's Rockwood".
  4. "BYU Women's Soccer in the NCAA TOURNEY". BYUCougars.com. BYU Athletics. Archived from the original on 2007-11-09. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
  5. UNC women’s soccer upsets BYU to advance to Final Four. The Capital Sports Report. Retrieved on 2012-11-24.
  6. Cal State Fullerton at BYU Game Notes. Byucougars.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-20.


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