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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 to 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 27 years as head coach, Rockwood's Cougars have made the NCAA tournament 21 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] In 2021 Rockwood led the Cougars to their first ever College Cup. Athletes playing for Rockwood have seen continual success over those 27 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	11–8–1	4–1–1	3rd
1996	BYU	22–1–1	6–1–0	2nd
1997	BYU	19–4–1	6–1–0	2nd	NCAA 1st Round
1998	BYU	20–5–0	6–1–0	2nd	NCAA 3rd Round
BYU (Mountain West Conference) (1999–2010)
1999	BYU	21–4–0	5–1–0	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
2000	BYU	19–4–1	6–0–0	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
2001	BYU	14–7–1	5–1–0	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
2002	BYU	16–6–0	6–0–0	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2003	BYU	16–7–3	4–2–0	2nd	NCAA Elite 8
2004	BYU	7–10–4	3–2–1	2nd
2005	BYU	15–2–4	4–1–2	3rd	NCAA 1st Round
2006	BYU	13–4–4	5–1–1	2nd	NCAA 1st Round
2007	BYU	17–4–2	4–3–0	3rd	NCAA 1st Round
2008	BYU	18–5–1	7–0–0	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
2009	BYU	18–4–2	6–0–1	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
2010	BYU	16–3–3	5–1–1	2nd	NCAA 1st Round
BYU (West Coast Conference) (2011–2022)
2011	BYU	11–5–3	5–2–1	4th
2012	BYU	20–2–2	7–0–1	1st	NCAA Elite 8
2013	BYU	16–5–2	8–1–0	T-1st	NCAA 2nd Round
2014	BYU	13–5–3	7–1–1	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2015	BYU	16–3–2	7–1–1	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
2016	BYU	18–3–1	7–1–1	1st	NCAA 3rd Round
2017	BYU	7-8-4	4-4-1	4th
2018	BYU	13-5-1	8-1	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2019	BYU	21-0-1	8-0-1	1st	NCAA Elite 8
2020	BYU	11-4-1	7-1-1	2nd	NCAA 2nd Round
2021	BYU	17-4-3	8-1-0	T-1st	National Runner-Up
BYU:		425–122–51 (.753)	158–29–15 (.819)
Total:		425–122–51 (.753)
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

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