Alex Jebb, the 2022 USTFCCCA Women’s National Assistant Coach of the Year, is in his eighth year coaching the men’s and women’s track & field teams at Johns Hopkins. In his seven seasons, Jebb’s athletes have earned 3 NCAA Championships, 28 All-America honors, and 80 individual Centennial Conference titles, making Jebb a six-time winner of the USTFCCCA Mideast Region Assistant Coach of the Year. Jebb, a former Hopkins track & field captain, returned to Homewood after completing his NCAA eligibility and obtaining his master’s degree at Duke University.
The 2022 season saw Jebb mentor Victoria Kadiri to 3 national titles, winning the program’s first indoor NCAA title in the long jump on her final attempt before proceeding to win both the long jump and the triple jump titles outdoors. Kadiri was named the 2022 USTFCCCA National Women's Field Athlete of the Year and the National Scholar Field Athlete of the Year for her accomplishments, which also included her Centennial Conference records of 12.43m (40’9.5”) in the triple jump and 6.06m (19’10.75”) in the long jump. Annie Gutierrez also re-wrote the record books as Gutierrez earned 3 more All-America accolades while setting 4 Centennial Conference records with marks of 5,062/3,603pts in the Heptathlon/Pentathlon, 3.88m (12’9”) in the pole vault, and 8.71sec in the 60m hurdles. Kadiri and Gutierrez combined for 26 points at the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, leading the Blue Jay women to a 3rd place finish. On the men’s side, Justin Canedy broke Andrew Bartnett’s conference record in the Heptathlon with a score of 5,245pts which moved him into the Top 10 All-time for Division III at the time. Canedy qualified for 4 events at the 2022 NCAA Division III championships, including his program record triple jump of 14.81m (48’7.25”), while Matt Su earned another All-American finish in the long jump outdoors. The 2022 jump squad won 17 Centennial Conference titles overall.
The abbreviated 2021 outdoor and 2020 indoor track seasons saw Jebb’s athletes bring home 6 All-American honors and 15 Centennial Conference titles. Veronica Montane, Annie Gutierrez, and Victoria Kadiri earned All-American honors at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field championships in the javelin, pole vault, and long jump, respectively, leading the Blue Jay women to a 4th place finish overall. Gutierrez and Canedy also earned All-American honors for their efforts in the 2020 indoor season.
Jebb was named the 2019 USTFCCCA Men’s Mideast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year for the third time in his career for the indoor season after coaching his athletes to 2 Centennial Conference records, 4 school records, 8 conference titles, and 5 NCAA-qualifying performances. Freshman Justin Canedy earned All-American honors in both the high jump and heptathlon with personal bests of 2.06m and 4,956pts, respectively. Maya Hammonds was the national runner-up in the long jump with a conference record leap of 5.89m, and Matt Su added another All-American honor in the long jump after qualifying with a new conference record mark of 7.24m. Hammonds also set a new school record in the pentathlon (3,403pts). Outdoors, Jebb’s athletes took home 11 Centennial Conference titles and Hammonds and Su each scored another All-American honor in the long jump. Freshman Ethan Bartlett set a new school record in the triple jump with a distance of 14.31m and Canedy set freshman records in the high jump (2.05m), long jump (7.14m), and decathlon (6,340pts).
In the 2017-18 school year, Jebb was named both the Men’s and Women’s 2018 USTFCCCA Mideast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year for the indoor season. During the indoor season, Jebb’s athletes recorded 2 Centennial Conference records, 6 school records, 6 Centennial Conference titles, and 4 NCAA qualifiers. Outdoors, Jebb’s athletes registered 2 school records, 6 conference titles, and 3 NCAA qualifiers. Maya Hammonds broke the Centennial Conference women’s long jump record indoors (5.76m) and then bettered that mark for a school record outdoors (5.82m). Matt Su broke the Centennial Conference men’s long jump record indoors (7.16m) and then also bettered that mark for a school record outdoors (7.18m/7.43w). Jenn Su earned NCAA qualifiers in both the pentathlon indoors (3,344pts - school record) and heptathlon outdoors (4,500pts), while Grant Mosser notched his first NCAA championship appearance with the sixth best heptathlon score in Division III (4,987pts).
In his second year of coaching at JHU, Jebb was named the 2017 USTFCCCA Men’s Mideast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year for the indoor season. Jebb coached Andrew Bartnett to the #6 All-time NCAA Division III heptathlon mark and a runner-up finish at the 2017 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships with a score of 5,238 points. His athletes won 10 Centennial Conference championships, broke 8 school records, 1 championship meet record, 2 conference records, and earned 3 All-American honors, as well as 2 Academic All-American honors. Grant Mosser finished the indoor season ranked #20 in the country in the heptathlon and the outdoor season ranked #21 in the 400H with his school record time of 53.62. Matt Su broke both the indoor and outdoor school records as a freshman, including the 94-year old outdoor school record with a leap of 7.05m.
In his first year of coaching at Hopkins, Jebb led 7 athletes to 3 All-American honors, 4 Academic All-American honors, 9 school records, and 3 championship meet records. He coached Andrew Bartnett to a 2nd place finish in the decathlon and Jenn Su to a 5th place finish in the heptathlon at the 2016 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships in their first seasons competing in those events. At the 2016 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, Jebb coached Devin Conley to an All-American finish in the heptathlon and a 494-point improvement from the previous year. Between the indoor and outdoor Centennial Conference Championships, Jebb’s athletes took home 8 event titles.
Jebb was a three-year captain for the Blue Jays and was named the Centennial Conference Championship Field MVP during the 2012 indoor and outdoor seasons. The West Point, NY native set Hopkins records in the 60m high hurdles, indoor long jump, indoor triple jump and outdoor triple jump. In his one season at Duke, Jebb was the Blue Devils’ leading triple jumper, finishing with the second longest jump in school history. Jebb was also named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll in his lone season at Duke. Jebb double majored at Hopkins in biomedical engineering and applied math & statistics and received his master’s degree from Duke in engineering management.
