| City: | Milan |
| State: | Tennessee |
| Team: | Blue Devils Baseball |
During his baseball career at Kaskaskia College from 1980-1982, Jeff Morris had a batting average of .337 with fourteen doubles, sixteen triples, four home runs and sixty-eight runs batted in. Jeff was on the All Southern Illinois Conference team and played in the North-South Illinois All Star game at Wrigley Field.
After Kaskaskia, Jeff attended Southeast Missouri State
University; his team won a Conference Championship and the Missouri
Intercollegiate Athletic Association Championship. The team
went on to play in the NCAA Midwest Regional and Jeff played in the
NCAA Tournament. Jeff received an Honorable Mention to the
All Missouri Intercollegiate team in 1983 and in
1984.
After graduation, Jeff began a coaching career spanning the
past 26 years. Jeff served nine years as a varsity high school
assistant football coach in Paris, Tennessee and two years as an
assistant coach at Milan High School in Milan, Tennessee. Jeff
became the Head Football Coach in 1996, a position he's held for 15
years with a 160-40 record.
Jeff's teams were the 1998 AA State Champions and the 1999
AAA State Champions; additionally they were 2nd in the state for
both 2008 and 2009, have been to the semi-finals eight times and
were in the playoffs every year with a record of 37-13.
During the seven year that Jeff served as the Henry County High
School's Baseball Coach, his teams were three time district
winners.
Jeff was named State Coach of the Year in 1998-1999 and the
Jackson Sun West Tennessee Coach of the Year in 1998, 1999, 2003,
and 2009. Jeff was also the Tennessee Titan Coach of the Year in
2003 and was selected as the Head Football Coach of the Tennessee
All-Stars team playing against the Kentucky All-Stars.
