Jourdan Doffeny begins her first season as the Head Track and Field Coach at Christian Brothers University. Doffeny joins the Bucs after serving as the Associate Head Coach at Northern Illinois University for the past three seasons.
Last season at NIU, Doffeny coached four conference champions with multiple athletes qualifying for NCAA preliminaries. Prior to her time at Northern Illinois, Doffeny was the assistant coach at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky. During her time at Lindsey Wilson, Doffeny mentored Emilija Kusic to a runner-up finish in the heptathlon at the 2021 NAIA National Championship as the Blue Raider women's track and field team finished 26th at the national meet.
Doffeny began her coaching career as an assistant coach at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, Iowa during the 2017-18 school year, where she helped produce four NJCAA Indoor and Outdoor National Championship qualifiers in the jumps and hurdles. The following year, Doffeny worked assistant coach at Concordia University Irvine (Calif.) where she helped the Eagles to top-four finishes in the PacWest Conference Championship before moving to Lindsey Wilson at the start of the 2019-20 campaign.
As a student-athlete at NIU, Doffeny was a standout multi-event competitor, finishing third in the pentathlon in 2016 and fourth in 2017 at the MAC Indoor Championships while taking second in 2016 and third in 2017 in the heptathlon at the MAC Outdoor Championships.
Doffeny, a native of San Antonio, Texas, earned her bachelor's degree from NIU in 2017 and a master's degree from Concordia-Irvine in 2020.
