Lisa Jackson enters her seventh season with the Georgia Southern women’s basketball program in 2017-18. She works primarily with the perimeter players on the court and servers as the recruiting coordinator. She is also involved in scouting opponents, handling alumni relations, daily scheduling and monitoring the student-athletes’ academic progress.
The Eagles were 5-25 overall and 2-16 in the Sun Belt Conference in 2017-18, but improved greatly over the second half of the Sun Belt season, averaging more than five points per game and five percent better shooting from the floor over the final nine games of the league slate. GS took sixth-seeded Louisiana to triple overtime in the first round of the 2018 Sun Belt Tournament, falling 88-81 in the longest game for the Eagles since 1998.
Georgia Southern went 13-17 overall and 9-9 in the Sun Belt Conference in 2016-17 - improvements of six overall and five league wins from 2015-16. The nine league wins were the most for an Eagle women's basketball team since the 2010-11 season. Georgia Southern earned the sixth seed in the Sun Belt tournament and made its first appearance in the league's postseason. Seniors Patrice Butler and Angel McGowan each earned All-Conference honors on the year and the team enjoyed the friendly confines of Hanner Fieldhouse, going 8-6 on the season at home.
Jackson came to Georgia Southern after serving on Ronny Fisher’s staff at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., for two seasons. In 2011-12, the Blue Hose recorded their most wins since the 2005-06 season.
She graduated from Erskine College in 2007 with a degree in sport management before starting her coaching career later that year with the Queens University (N.C.) women’s basketball team. She was then an assistant coach for her alma mater’s men’s basketball team from 2008-10 before joining Presbyterian.
As a player for the Flying Fleet, Jackson scored over 1,300 points during her career. She earned second-team All-Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) honors twice and was selected as a conference Player of the Week multiple times.
A Taylors, S.C., native, Jackson is the daughter of Abel and the late Margerite Jackson, who passed in 2014. She has a brother, Abel Jackson III, and a sister, Sheree Jackson.
