Tatijana Jacobson - Track & Field Coach - Central Michigan University Athletics

Tatijana Jacobson

Title:
Assistant Coach (Multis & High Jump)
Email:
jacob5t@cmich.edu

Tatijana Jacobson, who joined the Central Michigan coaching staff in July, 2019, works with the high jumpers and the multi-events athletes.

Two Chippewa multi-eventers, Gavin Jaime and Lexi Robinson, placed at the 2020 Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships. Jaime placed sixth in the heptathlon; Robinson was seventh in the pentathlon.

Jacobson came to CMU from Georgia, where she coached jumps and multis from 2015-19. From 2013-15 she was a volunteer assistant at North Carolina.

At Georgia, Jacobson coached a slew of All-Americans and Southeastern Conference champions, and in 2018 helped lead the Bulldog women to the NCAA indoor title and the Bulldog men to the NCAA outdoor crown. In Jacobson’s time in Athens, Georgia posted at combined 12 top-six finishes in the NCAA Championships.

Jacobson-coached student-athletes combined for 18 NCAA individual championships and 22 Southeastern Conference individual titles during her time at Georgia, and 63 times a Jacobson-coached Bulldog garnered First Team All-America honors.

Among the many standouts that Jacobson coached while at Georgia were Keturah Orji and Kendall Williams. Orji holds the American and NCAA records in both the outdoor triple jump and the indoor triple jump, and in the 2016 Olympics in Rio finished fourth, the highest Olympic finish by an American woman in the event. Jacobson helped coach Williams to the NCAA record in the pentathlon and four consecutive national titles in the event plus another three NCAA crowns in the heptathlon.

Jacobson, who holds a bachelor's degree from Eastern Michigan, was a standout on the Eagle track and field team, finishing as the runner-up in the high jump at the MAC Championships three times and qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor East Preliminary as a senior in 2013.