Melissa Jackson
@CoachJackson21
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Wife to Drew, Mom to Luke, Ben & Cameron💙💙💕, Head Coach Youngstown State WBB 🐧❤️
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Go Penguins!!!🐧❤️🔥
Help us welcome Melissa Jackson, the ninth head coach in our program’s storied history!
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#GoGuins
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The absolute BEST day with the most AMAZING people! YSU we are in ❤️!!! Come join our crew! 🐧🔥🐧🔥
#GoPenguins
#Grateful
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Thank You to everyone who has reached out over the last few weeks. Grateful for the ❤️,🙏🏼 and constant support. Excited to have our little girl home!💕 Cameron Jaye Jackson is bringing us lots of joy!
#Jackson5
#newbornsnuggles
#2daysold
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“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire”🔥🏀🔥
Go Vikes!!!💚🏀 Thanks
@coachkwbb
for this opportunity! Excited to work with this championship program! Let’s Go!
Excited to announce that
@coachkwbb
has filled the assistant coaching roles for the upcoming 2023-24 campaign, as Melissa Jackson & Shelby Zoeckler have both been named to the position!
Complete Release //
#ElevateUS
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#GoVikes
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Extremely thankful for all the congratulatory messages and well wishes! 💙💛🏀 I am so excited to lead this program! Best moment was telling our team!
#Priceless
#GoZips
#AkronMade
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Being a coaching mom you learn to balance a lot during the season. Our last game allowed fans and Luke got to make the trip. Grateful for moments like this 💙 My Boys love and miss being around our team!
#FAMILY
#13bigsisters
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Didn’t sleep 💤 much last night. My heart breaks 💔for our players and staff. I thank them for giving me their ALL (all year long) and leaving everything out on the court. Proud to be a Zip! Future is bright! 💙💛 BE>AVG
#headuphigh
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GRATEFUL for the BEST staff! 💙 Holding it down in OH while I watch a Future Zip 🦘and think about WHO will be the next SPECIAL person we add to our FAMILY!!! It’s been a GREAT July!
#ThinkAkron
#GoZips
#FAMILY
#GREATpeople
#ReallyGoodCoaches
#SwooshLife
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We lost a member of our FAMILY today💕🏀💕 RIP Coach Yontami Jones🙏 You were such an inspiration to many and a positive figure in our Akron community
#fighter
#ForeverAZip
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Made it to Minneapolis!✈️ Excited for
@ImNotDindo
and the amazing opportunities she has with the
@WBCA1981
“So” program and ProHoops combine! 🏀
#GoZips
#BELIEVE
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Happy 1st Day of College Basketball! 🏀 I am so proud of this group for their resiliency and ability to adapt. 💙💛 Best Wishes to all the players and staffs out there 🙏 We look forward to our GAMEDAY soon!
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Enjoyed watching our Future Zips battle tonight! 💙🦘🏀
@aila_millerr
@faith_stinson00
#futureteammates
#GoZips
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1️⃣ more day til GAMEDAY! Be at the JAR tomorrow at 2pm! Get your 1st look at THIS TEAM! 💙💛 🚨sound on🚨
#BensFavoriteTeam
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Through many challenges our team accomplished all of their goals. They grew as a team, were an absolute joy to coach, & believed. 4️⃣amazing seniors led the charge & have left their mark on
@ZipsWBB
💙They will be missed, but the future is extremely bright🌟🦘
#proudcoach
#BELIEVE
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Pretty cool to get Luke off the bus and see the excitement in his eyes when he showed me what he made during inside recess 💙
#GoZips
#loyalty
#WagonWheel
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Let’s Go!!!🐧🔥🐧🔥
@_PeytonBooth
@CoachCourtD
Can’t wait to build YSU WBB with these exceptional people!!!
#GoPenguins
#familY
We're excited to announce the first two assistant coaches to join
@CoachJackson21
's staff at YSU!
🔴 Peyton Booth was alongside Jackson for two seasons at Akron, and she spent 2023-24 at Western Michigan.
🔴 Courtney Davidson is a Youngstown native who will be a Penguin for the…
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Big weekend for these Graduates!!!🎓 All their hard work and determination has paid off! Eager to follow their next steps in life! So proud! ❤️
#FAMILY
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Family❤️ Cameron got to meet some amazing young women tonight! 💕
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One of the absolute BEST in the business! 👀🔥🔥🔥 Glad she is on our Team! Impacts
@ZipsWBB
every day! 🏀💪🏼🧠
Congratulations to Colleen Day Henderson on being named one of the Most Impactful Mid Major Assistants in Division I Women’s Basketball
@ColleenDay1
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Great 1st week at CSU!💚🏀 Thankful for the warm welcome and unbelievable support! Go Vikes!
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Safe travels ✈️ and best wishes to this
@ZipsWBB
alum! Glad we got to spend some time before she heads out to Switzerland🇨🇭🏀
#ZipsInThePros
#ForeverAZip
#FAMILY
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A well deserved promotion!!! We will miss her on staff but our entire department will now benefit from her leadership and amazing skills! 💙💛
Akron Names Candace Smith Associate AD for Internal Operations
#ZipsRiseTogether
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@AkronZips
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Year 1️⃣ in the 📚 My vision for this team was to work really hard, compete every day and have fun. Proud of
@ZipsWBB
💙💛 We laid a solid foundation and good things are to come! Already looking forward to year 2️⃣!
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AWESOME day at YSU!!!🐧❤️
☑️ Spoke to our loyal Penguin Club supporters!
☑️GREAT final TEAM workout!🔥
☑️ On the road & can’t wait to watch Future Penguins!
#LetsGo
Excited to hit the road for the first recruiting weekend with our new staff!
We'll be looking for future Penguins in Ohio and Pennsylvania this weekend!
#GoGuins
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It’s a GREAT day to be a Zip!!! 💙🦘 Sooo excited about the news we received!!! Our FAMILY has added an amazing student-athlete!!!
#ZipFam
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Congrats to
@ZipsCoachKest
A championship coach w/ an amazing work ethic & passion for the game💙💛🏀 Wishing you all the best!
#ForeverAZip
Akron’s Jodi Kest Retires from Coaching After Decorated Career
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Incredibly proud of our team! 💙💛 BIG W for our program. Listened to the scout and shot with a lot confidence 🔥🔥🔥
#proudcoach
#3
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#OUTWORK
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An unforgettable night with our boys🏀💙💙 Big thanks to
@NACDABob
for the amazing seats!!!
#WFinalFour
#Cleveland
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The BIG 4️⃣0️⃣‼️Happy Birthday to my rock, best friend, amazing Dad & the guy that gets more handsome with age! ❤️ I love you!
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What I will miss about Indy: watching my favorites 👀🏀 What I will not miss about Indy: my google maps saying “At the roundabout...”
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1️⃣1️⃣ years with my best friend!❤️No tropical trip planned just us and a record 164 consecutive days together!
#icounted
#crazylove
#happyanniversary
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Go Zips!🦘Amazing coaching job by
@JohnGroce
and his staff! Congrats to a tough and resilient
@ZipsMBB
#sharpie
#MarchisMagical
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Getting better on our day off from practice! 🏀👀📝 Thank You
@CoachLindsayG
for the invite! Amazing to see my former coach, mentor, and friend doing her thing at the highest level!
#GoCavs
#trainingcamp
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Highly focused… highly motivated!!! Ready to have some fun with this group!💙🦘🔥
#LetsGo
#GoZips
#RESILIENT
#GAMEDAY
#year19
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Anyone else getting excited for college football?!?!🏈 Was working on our practice schedule earlier and had to highlight
@ZipsFB
home opener on Sept. 1st! Check out our stadium and new turf! 🔥🔥🔥
#GoZips
#tailgateseason
#topnotchfacilities
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A year filled with milestones, unforgettable moments & lots of snuggles!!! 💕☺️ Happy 1️⃣st Birthday to our sweet girl Cameron!
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One positive of the recruiting dead period was giving me the time & opportunity to coach Luke’s 2nd grade basketball team! 🏀💙
#GoBucks
#momlife
#assistantcoachBen
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“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
#RIPMamba
#RIPGianna
💛💜 You inspired so many 🙏
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Lots to be grateful for this holiday season… Merry Christmas from The Jacksons!!!🎄❤️
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Happy Anniversary to my everything!❤️ Don’t know what I would do without this guy by my side! Love you!
#crazylove
#14years
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Yesterday we started “Jackson Family Olympics”🇺🇸🥇🥈🥉🇺🇸 Here is an update on our Winter Games!
#2EventsToGo
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A GREAT few days in England watching some ballers with
@ColleenDay1
and
@AkronZips
! 🏀👀🇬🇧 On our way to Ireland to see our Future Zip! 💙💛
#ZipsAbroad
#Fallrecruiting
#FutureZips
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Zips Take Round One of Wagon Wheel Rivalry, 62-61
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Akron returns home Sat. Jan. 8 as the Zips host Bowling Green at 2 pm
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Congrats to our 2️⃣signees on the many postseason accolades!
@faith_stinson00
Ohio’s D2 POY🌟👀
@aila_millerr
D3 2nd Team All-Ohio💙
#FutureZips
#LetsGo
#GoZips
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Love hearing the music blasting 🎵& balls bouncing 🏀 as I watch Future Zips 💻👀 in the office! Multiple players in the gym on their OFF day getting better💙💛
#Committed
#OUTWORK
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As a coaching mom you sometimes miss stuff! Busy day on campus with 🏀, special visitors and 🏈 but glad I got to start off my day with Ben’s 1️⃣st goal ⚽️🥅
#GoBen
#momsincoaching
#littlethings
#greatday
#3yroldsoccer
#SoccerAM
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It’s here...GAMEDAY!!! Exhibition style but still all the feels 💙💛 Can’t wait for this group to put on the Akron uniform and represent our program!
#AkronMade
BE>AVG
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Good Back to Back high intensity practices by our current
@ZipsWBB
💯 Awesome Zoom Calls with our Future 21’ Zips 💙💛 And we added to our FAMILY with a Future 22’. It’s a GREAT time to be a Zip!!! 🦘🏀
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9️⃣-2️⃣ in Non-Conference!!! Proud of
@ZipsWBB
and our journey this far. We will continue to get better every day and trust the process. 💛💙🏀 MAC play starts Saturday!!! 💯
#BestMidMajorConference
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7️⃣ years ago this little guy made me a Mom! Happy Birthday Luke! 💙 My sweet, basketball loving, math wiz of a boy in getting soooo big!
#LukeTurns7
#BirthdayBoy
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During season you celebrate ❤️ day any night you can get!
#datenight
#justus
#bluepoint
#terminaltower
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Made it home just before bedtime and Ben reminded me it’s Shark Week 🦈 💙 awwwwh it’s good to be HOME!🏡
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So happy to keep our newest Future Zip HOME! 💙💛🏀
#330
This one is already family!
#AkronFamily
#LegacyRecruit
#SpecialClass
#Fab52019version
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Great intersquad scrimmage with some officials today! 💙💛 This team continues to get better each day! 1️⃣0️⃣ more days til the real thing!
#OUTWORK
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Wishing all the best to
@ShaynaAnn12
today as she has surgery🙏 Will be forever amazed by her determination to get back for what was the most PERFECT senior day! 💙💛 Almost 10minutes, 3pts, 2 assists, +8 and a BIG W on a torn ACL!!!
#OurGlue
#YouGotThis
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What a GREAT basketball game! So proud of our group and their resiliency!!! 💙💛
#Fighters
#BIGRoadW
#BE
>AVG
#ELEVATE
What! A! Win!
The Zips scored 14....yes, 14...unanswered points in the final 2:29 of the contest to complete the come-from-behind victory and secured its first
@MACsports
W of the year!
#ELEVATE
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A GREAT Win on a SPECIAL day with a SPECIAL class! 💙💛💙💛💙Thank You Seniors! I held it together until they gave me this! 😅
#SeniorDay
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BIG road W!!! 💪🏀 BE>AVG
What a game! What a WIN!!!!
Akron takes down Bowling Green, 83-73, to claim the season sweep of the Falcons!
#Be
>Avg
#AkronMade
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Proud of our group! 💙💛 HIGH level basketball game this afternoon in early November! We will continue to learn and
#ELEVATE
our program! Thank You to ALL the fans, the JAR was rockin! 🗣💯🗣💯
RECAP: What a game!
Akron goes toe-to-toe with No. 24 Michigan!
Another big day for Haleigh Reinoehl: 1⃣4⃣ points!
A career day for Rachel Martindale: 1⃣2⃣points and4⃣ triples!
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Proud of our team and our response today 💙💯 Even in defeat, we got better today. Thanks to the alums who came back and the
@TheAKROWDIES
for their support! 💙🦘
#proudcoach
#studentsection
#BELIEVE
FINAL
AKR 70
UT 73
Jordyn Dawson led the Zips with 26 pts, 9 rebs, 2 steals
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Between recruiting calls/team workouts, was able to execute a 6️⃣yr old birthday bash for Ben and his flag 🏈 buddies!
#memories
#sonicbirthday
💙🎂
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Today is the best day! 1️⃣2️⃣ years with my best friend! Thank you for giving me your ❤️
@DrewJackson40
Happy Anniversary
#ourfavoriteday
#crazylove
#celebratebig
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This is crazy... and they are loving it! 🧡🤎🦴🏈 No idea how I am getting them to bed 🤷♀️?!?!
#GoBrowns
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Another good step in our process!👍Thanks to all who came out! Great support! Go Zips! 💙💛🏀
Akron comes out on top in a strong showing in the exhibition game against Rochester College.
#GoZips
#AkronMade
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A SWEET SWEEP!!!🧹🦘💙 Thanks to everyone who came out & saw a great game! S/O to our staff for making our Akron for Nakon game special 💗
#proudcoach
#WagonWheel
#AkronforNakon
Season sweep over Kent State ✅
4th straight win ✅
Jordyn Dawson scores 30 pts, 8 rebs, 4 assists, and 4 steals
Reagan Bass adds 18 pts
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Special Night watching our Future Zip
@Kgarry12
ball out and win on Senior Night! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🏀Can’t wait to coach her!
#BigWIN
#BenLovesTigers
#AndFutureZips
💙💛
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Our squad is having a GREAT summer both on and off the court! 💙📚🏀💪🏽 A little team bonding today
@cedarpoint
🎢
#FAMILY
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Wheels up ✈️ to OHIO! What a GREAT 1st half of July! 👀 my favorites and added a few more!
@ZipsWBB
Future is 🔥🔥🔥
#JulyRecruiting
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