University of California Athletics

Assistant Athletic Performance Coach Jordan Jackson joined the Golden Bears in April 2017 and enters his third season at Cal in 2019-20.

Jackson spent two seasons under Wyking Jones before he was retained by head coach Mark Fox. He is tasked with helping the Golden Bears develop size, strength and speed to match Fox's principles of tenacious defense and exciting offense.

Jackson's contribution to the Bears' strength and conditioning varies from weight training to hot yoga and stadium or sand court workouts. His first-year contributions were most evident in center Kingsley Okoroh. Jackson helped Okoroh drop 14 lbs. of weight during the summer of 2017, improving his lean body mass from 245.8 to 252 -- a gain of 7 lbs. of muscle. His fat measured at 8.4, down from 18.7 in June, including a nearly four percent drop in body fat from 9 percent to 5.1 percent.

Jackson came to Berkeley after serving as an assistant athletic performance coach for the UCLA men’s and women’s basketball programs from May 2015 to April 2017, where he designed workouts aimed at improving his student-athletes’ speed, agility, acceleration, power and flexibility while implementing conditioning and recovery programs to allow their bodies to thrive throughout basketball season.

In addition to his responsibilities in the weight room, Jackson oversaw the Bruins’ nutrition program, including managing training table meals and snacks and individualizing nutrition plans alongside the team dietitian.

Prior to his stint in Westwood, Jackson was an assistant sports performance coach at Cal State Northridge, working under the director of sports performance to develop offseason fitness programs for the CSUN basketball squad and creating individual conditioning program’s for women’s basketball.

A military veteran, Jackson served as an assistant command fitness leader with the United States Navy for nearly five years, working in both Nevada and Bahrain. He conducted daily physical training sessions for all command personnel and CPR trained more than 60 military members.

Jackson owns several certifications, including as an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, an ACSM Corrective Exercise Specialist and as an NASE Certified Speed and Explosion Specialist, as well as CPR and AED certifications from the American Health Care Academy.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science from Cal State Northridge and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in exercise science with a focus on rehabilitation science from California University of Pennsylvania.