Missouri announced Sunday it hired Memphis coach Kerrick Jackson as its new baseball head coach.
Jackson, a former Missouri assistant coach, will be the first Black baseball head coach in SEC history and was one of four Black men who started the 2023 season as head coaches at non-HBCU schools at the top level of college baseball.
"We set out to find a leader of high character with success rejuvenating a program, and we certainly found that in Kerrick Jackson," Missouri athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois said in a statement. "He's a tireless recruiter, fierce competitor and a coach with deep roots in the Midwest.