Brenita Jackson enters her second year (2022-23) as head coach of the women’s basketball program and 7th season overall as a head coach at the college level coaching alongside her husband Kevin Jackson. In just her first season at the helm of the Lady Ram's program, Jackson holds the third best record in program history 25-7 and holds the highest win percentage .781 of any coach in the history of women's basketball at Texas Wesleyan. The Lady Rams qualified for the national tournament for only the third time in program history ending their historic season in Sioux Falls, Iowa to St. Francis University.
Jackson was named the 2021-2022 John Hudson Coach of the Year after reviving the program that only won 1 game that she inherited to a 25-win season. This 24 win improvement in just one year is the best turnaround in the program's history. The team was lead by junior transfer Kertisa Amos who was named First Team all Sooner Athletic Conference, New Comer of the Year and on the All-Defensive Team. The team was also propelled by the play of Freshman of the Year, Zarria Carter, and All Conference Honorable Mention, Makayla Coy. Both Carter and Amos were awarded Player of the Week Awards in the Sooner Athletic Conference during the historic season.
Turning around losing programs is something Kevin and Brenita Jackson have done at three different college programs in their coaching careers and have worked tirelessly to maintain an overall graduation rate of 100% of all student-athletes. The husband and wife team believe in building the whole person and developing the student and the athlete for success in the classroom, on the court and in life.
Prior to coming to Texas Wesleyan, Brenita spent a season at Little Elm High School where she served as an assistant coach for a year. She has also spent the last 8 years building KBJ Academy with her husband Kevin Jackson to offer consulting, basketball skills training, camps and team building retreats across the country.
Jackson is from the Dallas-Fort Worth area and graduated from Cedar Hill High School in 2003. She went on to play two years at Lon Morris College where she led the team from last place, to a Region 14 Conference Champion Runner-Up finish in 2005. She was voted to the All-Conference and All-Academic team and signed to play at NCAA Division I Southeastern Louisiana University in the Southland Conference. While at Southeastern, she led the Lions from last place in the conference to an East Division Conference Championship in 2007 while also garnering All-Conference, All-Academic and All-Louisiana honors. While at Southeastern, she met her now husband - Kevin Jackson who would later join her on the coaching journey making history together at various stops. After graduating from Southeastern with her Bachelor’s in Business Management, Brenita went on to play professionally in Aarhus, Denmark where she began coaching her team to an undefeated season.
Brenita returned to her alma mater in the fall of 2008 to become an assistant coach at Lon Morris College. In 2010, she was promoted to the head coaching position and made history with Kevin Jackson in their first two years. The pair broke the school record for the most wins in a season finishing 19-12, while also finishing runner-up in the Region 14 Championship. Brenita and Kevin recruited and coached two All-Americans, six All-Conference winners, four All-Academic winners and one Freshman of the Year. They also obtained a 100% graduation rate of all sophomores and the team GPA was ranked No. 5 in the nation, with an average GPA of 3.5.
In the spring of 2012, Lon Morris College shut down which led the husband and wife team out to Cisco College for a stint coaching one All-Conference player and 100% graduation of all sophomores.
From there, the couple went to San Jacinto College. In just two seasons, the duo made history for the Gators, recruiting and developing three All-Americans, three All-Conference winners, two All-Academic selections and another Freshman of the Year. The team’s best finish was 23-9 and was nationally ranked for the first time in the program’s history, climbing as high as 9 th in the NJCAA DI Women’s Basketball Top 25 poll. In 2015, she was named Region 14 Coach of the Year and was recognized by the Houston Chronicle as, “A winning team on the court and in life.” The husband and wife team then went to McNeese State University in 2015 and coached two All-Conference players, and helped the program win over 20 games.
Brenita and her husband Kevin have used their experience to help more than 4,500 student-athletes and their parents learn more about the recruiting process while traveling the country to host basketball camps, clinics and showcases. They have been coaching with various businesses and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) programs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The two are published authors of “Play College Basketball” which was ranked #18 of the top sports books to read in 2021. They also host two podcasts called “Hoops with KBJ” and “Coffee with KBJ” which are both available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and iheart radio.
Jackson has a B.A. in Business Management from Southeastern Louisiana (2007) and a M.A. in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University – Irvine (2012). She and her husband Kevin just welcomed their first daughter Kylee into the world this past February.
