Jason Sherrer was added to the University of Mount Olive baseball coaching staff as an assistant coach prior to the spring of 2010. Sherrer is the Trojans' pitching coach and also performs athletic field maintenance.
Sherrer first came to Mount Olive in the fall of 2006 from Scottsdale Community College in Arizona, where he is originally from. He was the starting catcher and one of the captain's on Mount Olive’s 2008 NCAA Division II Baseball National Championship Team where he earned team MVP. His two-run single highlighted a four-run rally in the bottom of the ninth that lifted the Trojans to a dramatic 6-5 win over Ouachita Baptist in the first round of the NCAA II National Finals. Sherrer also reached on an error with two outs in the top of the first of the National Championship Game to keep the inning alive as the Trojans went on to score five runs in the inning and win the title game 6-2, also against Ouachita Baptist.
Jason Sherrer was added to the University of Mount Olive baseball coaching staff as an assistant coach after a brief stint in professional baseball playing in Canada, Chicago and St. Louis. prior to the spring of 2010. Sherrer is starting his 5th year as the Trojans' pitching coach after he shared that duty next to Coach Watt in 2011. Since Sherrer was added to the coaching staff, Mount Olive has reached the NCAA Tournament each year, including an NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Championship and a top three finish in the Division II National Finals in 2011. The Trojans have won four Conference Carolinas Championships in Sherrer's first six years.
Sherrer captured a number of individual honors at the end of the 2008 season, including Conference Carolinas Baseball Player of the Year and Conference Carolinas Male Athlete of the Year. He also earned All-America honors and All-South Atlantic Region Gold Glove honors. Sherrer was named to the All-Tournament Team at the South Atlantic Regional. Sherrer also excelled in the classroom and was named to the 2008 CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team. Sherrer graduated from Mount Olive with a 3.89 cumulative grade point average majoring in sports management. In addition, Sherrer was the 2007-08 Conference Commissioners Association Division II South Atlantic Region Male Scholar Athlete of the Year.
In addition to his role as the Trojan's pitching coach, he also is the head of all the athletic fields on campus. Last year he earned his Sports Turf Grass Management Certification from the University of Georgia.
During the summers, he spent two years as Rob Watt's assistant to the local Wayne County Legion baseball team and has spent the last four years as the head coach. He has compiled a record of 68-33 with three regular season first place finishes, reaching the post season all four years, once a runner up in the Area 1 East finals and one appearance in the North Carolina American Legion State Tournament.
His family still resides in Arizona while Sherrer and his wife Katie live in Mount Olive. One of many major high points in Sherrer's coaching career was when he had the opportunity to coach his brother Cameron, who was a starting second baseman on the 2012 team. Cameron, who graduated in 2012 played professional baseball and won the Frontier League Championship in 2014.
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