Westminster University Athletics

Jenteal Jackson will enter her second year as the head coach of the Westminster Griffins Head Coach in 2022.

After serving nine years as an assistant coach and three years as a player, Jenteal Jackson became the women's basketball team's fifth head coach in their program history in 2021-22.  In her first season as head coach, she led the Griffins to a 17-9 overall record and 16-5 conference record which helped the Griffins host an RMAC Tournament game in her first season. 

Jackson became a Westminster assistant basketball coach immediately following her senior season—a position she would hold from 2013-21—while also serving as the women's assistant golf coach (2013-15) and its head coach (2015-17). Jackson led Westminster to its first appearance in the RMAC Golf Championship in 2016. 

Jackson, a former two-sport athlete at Westminster, played three seasons on the women's basketball team from 2010-2012 after transferring from Brigham Young University and competed on the golf team from 2010-2013. She played 67 games in the Purple and Gold, dishing out 248 assists (3.7 per game), averaging nine points, 3.7 rebounds, and 1.4 steals per game. She played for two Frontier Conference regular-season championship teams, making the postseason both years and advancing to the second round in the 2012 NAIA National Championship. She also starred for the golf team, playing 44 rounds in 17 tournaments, recording four individual wins, and two individual and team Frontier Conference titles, while posting an average score of 79.52.  

The women's basketball team went 149-67 overall (NAIA and NCAA Division II) and 107-48 in conference play (Frontier Conference and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) in Jackson's nine years as Jarrard's assistant. Jackson helped coach and recruit 89 all-conference, all-academic and all-America players. 

Jackson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Westminster College in 2013. The Salt Lake City native prepped at Skyline High School.

In the 2021-22 season the Women's Basketball team was named of nine athletic teams at Westminster for the Brechler Award with a team GPA of 3.655.