| Andy Jackson | |
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| Sport(s) | Men's tennis |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | University of Florida |
| Conference | Southeastern Conference |
| Record | 193–73 (.726) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | August 14, 1961 |
| Place of birth | Oneida, Kentucky |
| Playing career | |
| 1982–1984 | Kentucky |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985–2001 2002–present |
Mississippi State Florida |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 480–224 (.682) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| SEC (1993, 2003, 2005) SEC Tournament (1996, 2005, 2011) |
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David Andrew "Andy" Jackson (born August 14, 1961) is an American college tennis coach and former college player. He is the current head coach of the Florida Gators men's tennis team of the University of Florida. Jackson previously coached the Mississippi State Bulldogs men's tennis team and Lady Bulldogs women's tennis team of Mississippi State University.
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Jackson was born in Oneida, Kentucky in 1961. He attended Franklin County High School in Frankfort, Kentucky, and played tennis for the Franklin County Flyers high school tennis team. He is a descendant of U.S. President Andrew Jackson and American Civil War general Stonewall Jackson.
He attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he lettered for the Kentucky Wildcats men's tennis team from 1982 to 1984.[1] As a senior in 1984, Jackson was the Wildcats' team captain.
Jackson was the head coach for the Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs women's tennis team from 1985 to 1989, and then the head coach of the Bulldogs men's tennis team from 1989 to 2001. His Bulldogs' men's team won the Southeastern Conference (SEC) regular season championship in 1993, and the SEC tournament title in 1996.
He joined the Florida Gators coaching staff in the summer of 2001.[2]
After winning the SEC men's tennis tournament in 2011,[3] Jackson's Gators ended their season in the round of sixteen in the NCAA Tournament when they lost 4–2 to the SEC rival Kentucky Wildcats.[4]
In ten years as the Gators' head coach, he has compiled an overall win-loss of 193–73; his 27-season career win-loss record is 480–224.
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