The 2010 season marks Lew Jenkins' 16th season at the helm of the Seahawk baseball team. Jenkins first served the St. Mary's baseball program as an assistant in 1994 before being named the head coach starting with 1995 season.
The program's all-time winningest coach with 262 wins, the Seahawks had three consecutive 20-win seasons from 1998-2000 under Jenkins' tutelage, marking the first three ever such seasons in the program's history. The Seahawks claimed the CAC regular-season title and finished as CAC runners-up in 1999 with a 26-7 (8-2 CAC) record. The 26-7 mark in 1999 set team records for most wins and best winning percentage.
Jenkins is probably best known for his 25 years as the head baseball coach of Surrattsville High School in Clinton, where he won 326 games, No. 1 on the state's all-time list at the time of his retirement. In addition to coaching baseball, he served as an athletic director, a P.E. teacher, and a coach for wrestling, soccer and football. Jenkins left Surrattsville after the 1993 season with a lifetime winning percentage of .718. After the state playoff system took effect in 1975, his teams qualified for postseason play 18 straight years. Jenkins won 11 Prince George's County titles at a time when that area was considered a hotbed of baseball talent.
During his 40+ year coaching career, he has notched almost 600 wins between his high school and college coaching days. After his retirement from high school coaching, Jenkins spent three seasons as an assistant at two of the premier Division I programs in the region, Georgetown and George Washington Universities. Several players from those teams went on to play professional baseball.
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JENKINS AT ST. MARY'S | |||
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Year |
Overall Record |
CAC Record |
Postseason |
|
1995 |
15-18 |
4-6 |
CAC First Round |
|
1996 |
16-18 |
6-4 |
CAC Semifinals |
|
1997 |
13-22 |
1-9 |
CAC First Round |
|
1998 |
21-9 |
6-4 |
CAC Semifinals |
|
1999 |
26-7 |
8-2 |
CAC Regular-Season Champion, |
|
2000 |
22-6 |
7-3 |
CAC Semifinals |
|
2001 |
19-15 |
5-5 |
CAC First Round |
|
2002 |
13-26-1 |
3-7 |
CAC Fourth Round |
|
2003 |
11-20 |
3-7 |
CAC Third Round |
|
2004 |
21-17-1 |
3-7 |
CAC Second Round |
|
2005 |
18-18 |
3-7 |
CAC Third Round |
|
2006 |
16-23 |
3-7 |
CAC Second Round |
|
2007 |
17-20 |
3-7 |
CAC Third Round |
|
2008 |
19-21-1 |
9-9 |
CAC Second Round |
|
2009 |
15-22 |
7-11 |
CAC Third Round |
|
Totals |
262-262-3 |
71-95 |
10-21 CAC tournament record |
Jenkins has 25 years of scouting experience, having scouted for the Texas Rangers, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Major League Scouting Bureau. He coached youth baseball teams at the national and international level, including mentoring the U.S. Junior National Team for four years.
In 1994, he was inducted into the Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in acknowledgement of his stellar career at Surrattsville. In 1991, he was awarded the U.S. Baseball Foundation's National Service Award. Jenkins was also enshrined in the Maryland State Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1994.
A 1959 graduate of the University of Maryland, he earned his master's in physical education from George Washington.
Jenkins lives in Waldorf with his wife, Marian. The couple has three grown sons, four granddaughters, and one grandson.
