Former longtime University of Mobile Assistant Baseball Coach, Jon Seymour, took over the helm of the University of Mobile Baseball program following the tragic passing of Coach Mike Jacobs, the program's founder, in December of 2019. Seymour begins his fifth season as the program's head coach in 2024 and has put together a 100-58 overall record across his first four seasons at the helm of the program, with his 100th-career win coming in the program's first-ever championship victory in the SSAC Championship.
2020-Present:
- 100-58 overall record as head coach.
- Coached 15Â SSAC All-Conference selections.
- Coached one MLB Draft (Tucker Musgrove; 2023 SD Padres)
- Coached one SSAC Freshman of the Year.
- Coached eight Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete selections.
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Before coming to Mobile, Seymour worked as an assistant pitching coach for Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., for three seasons.
Prior to his stint at Shenandoah University, Seymour was an assistant pitching coach with a summer league team, the Santa Clara Dodgers, that advanced to the Palomino World Series two years in a row. At the same time, Seymour spent three seasons from 1996-99 working with NCAA Division I perennial power Stanford University as an assistant groundskeeper while also helping out with the Stanford baseball practices and summer camps.
Seymour received his AA Degree from Mission College in Santa Clara, CA, after playing two years on the Mission College baseball team in 1995 and 1996. He was an All-Conference pitcher in 1996 in the California Junior College Coast Conference after going 10-0 with a 1.68 ERA. Seymour is working on his B.A. degree in exercise science.
Seymour was born on Feb. 14, 1975 and is a native of Santa Clara, CA. He is a 1993 graduate of Santa Clara High School where he played baseball.
