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Angela Jackson

The 2017-18 season will be Angela Jackson’s 15th season as head coach for the Chicago State women’s basketball team. She is currently the program’s all-time leader in wins with 131.

Jackson tutored a pair of Cougars to capture All-Western Athletic Conference honors in 2015-16: Kaylee Allen (All-Newcomer) and Layne Murphy (Second Team). In addition, she had four players receive Academic All-WAC accolades.

She guided the Cougars to the program’s best ever season in 2010-11 when her squad won the Great West Conference regular season and tournament championships. The Cougars defeated Eastern Illinois and Cleveland State on their way to the Women’s Basketball Invitational Final Four. The 2010-11 team won a school-record 24 games. Jackson was named GWC Coach of the Year. Courtney Waldon was named the GWC Player of the Year.

Jackson’s student-athletes have stood out on and off the court. Since the 2010-11 season, 13 Cougars have made conference All-Academic teams. Her teams have earned multi-year Academic Progress Rate scores higher than the NCAA average in three of the past five years, including two single season 1,000 APR scores during that time.

In her first 12 seasons with Chicago State, Jackson has coached seven of the top 10 scorers in Cougars’ history including six 1,000-point scorers (Courtney Waldon, Jasmin Dixon, Paris Williams, Janay Dockery, Tina Hill, Kafayat Davies and Murphy). She has had six (Tressa Beckel, Zondranika Williams, Murphy, P. Williams, Dixon and Davies) student-athletes sign professional contracts overseas. Her players have earned all-conference selections 29 times including six first team all-conference nods. Over her tenure, the Cougars have earned 19 conference player of the week honors.

The Cougars have been just as dangerous outside of conference play during Jackson’s reign.  Her Chicago State teams have recorded non-conference victories over programs from 15 different conferences. 

Most notably she has made a habit of beating local rivals. She owns a victory over Northwestern, four wins over city rival Loyola-Chicago, three against Northern Illinois along with one over Valparaiso and a pair against Eastern Illinois. She’s also defeated Tulane, Saint Louis, Morehead State, Ohio and twice taken down Dayton.

Since the 2006-07 season, the Cougars have averaged at least ten steals per game and have ranked no lower than 64th among all of the Division I schools in the NCAA. Jasmin Dixon recorded 260 steals during her career from 2005 to 2009. She finished 13th in the nation in 2007 with 3.3 steals per game.

Chicago State has also shown the ability to shoot from distance under Jackson. Between 2007-11, her teams shot at least 33 percent from the 3-point line and ranked in the NCAA’s top 40 in three-point shooting from 2008-11.

Courtney Waldon, Chicago State’s Division I all-time leader in scoring and made three-pointers, ranked in the NCAA’s top 40 in three-point shooting percentage during three of her four seasons under Jackson. Waldon finished her career with 1,581 points. She concluded the 2010-11 season ranked ninth in the nation with an average of 3.0 made three-pointers per contest.  

Prior to her arrival at Chicago State, Jackson spent time with Michigan and Michigan State. As an associate head coach at Michigan, she was a part of a staff that made two WNIT tournaments and made the round of 32 of the NCAA tournament twice as an assistant with Michigan State. Jackson was also the head coach of NCAA Division II Saginaw Valley State for one season and an assistant coach at NCAA Division II Wayne State University.

Before venturing into coaching, Jackson had a decorated playing career at Odessa and Old Dominion University. She made the all-conference team twice in her two years at Odessa and helped lead her team to a NJCAA National Tournament appearance as a sophomore. After transferring to Old Dominion, she averaged 16.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game for the 1989-90 team that won the Sun Belt conference and advanced to the second round of the 1990 NCAA tournament.

Jackson graduated in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Old Dominion.
The Angela Jackson File
2003- Chicago State Head Coach
2001-03 Michigan Associate Head Coach
2000-01 Saginaw Valley State Head Coach
1993-00 Michigan State Assistant Coach
1992-93 Wayne State (Mich.) Assistant Coach
Notable Accomplishments
• Program leader in wins (123)
• 2010-11 Great West Conference Champions
• 2010-11 Women's Basketball Invitational Final Four
• 2010-11 Great West Conference Coach of the Year
• Seven 1,000-point scorers
• Six professional signees