Coach Jollon brings sixteen years of winning coaching experience and nationally recognized recruiting toPeaco*ck Nation, as he joins Leedham's staff before the 2022-23 season.
Coach Jollon joins Saint Peters after serving seven years as the Recruiting Coordinator and AssistantCoach for the Fairfield University under New England Hall of Fame Head Coach Joseph Frager. InJollon’s final season with Fairfield, the Stags finished 19-1 in conference and 25-7 overall, winning theMAAC conference and regular season tournament championship. This was the Stag’s first MAACChampionship and NCAA tournament appearance since 1998. In addition to recruiting and coachingresponsibilities, Jollon was charged with implementing the Stags ‘motion offense’ as a compliment toFairfield’s well established signature style of play. Coach Jollon was also tasked with post playerdevelopment and responsibility for Fairfield’s ‘signature’ zone defense.
At Fairfield, Jollon enhanced the team's recruiting efforts, especially overseas and in the transfer portal.Jollon recruited playersfrom France, Ireland, and Spain, including 2022 MAAC Player of the Year, LouLopez-Senecha. Senechal was also, named the 2019 MAAC Rookie of the Year, the program's first in 15years. In addition, she garnered 2020-21 All-Met honors, finishing that season as the only unanimousFirst Team All-Conference selection in the conference. Another Jollon recruit, Andrea Hernangomez fromSpain has also found success in the MAAC as she was named the conference’s Sixth Player of the Yearaward in 2021, the second in program history. Coach Jollon was also responsible for the recruitment ofCallie Cavanaugh, a transfer from FIU who finished All- MAAC third team for the Stags championshipseason in 2022. Most recently on the portal, in 2021 Coach Jollonrecruited Sydney Lowery, a graduatesenior, from Boston College and three-star ESPN recruit who was named the 30 th best guard in her classout of high school. At the time she was the highest rated guard to ever wear a Stags Women’s basketball
jersey.
Among other recruiting accolades, the 2017 Stags recruiting class was ranked No. 1 in the MAAC and52nd in the country (Dan Olsen, ESPN), representing the first nationally ranked recruiting class in thehistory of the Fairfield University Women’s basketball.
One of coach Jollon’s other important responsibilities was the Stags’ zone defense, which in 2016-17,was ranked in the top 8% nationally for defensive efficiency (Synergy Sports). In 2021, the Stags playedzone 80% of their possessions on defense, finishing in the top 15% nationally in points allowed perpossession at .682 and finishing 4 th nationally of teams who played zone more than 50% of theirpossessions. In the same year, the Stags finished 11-5 overall and 9-3 in conference, their highestwinning percentage since 2013-2014 season. In 2022, their championship season, the Stags played morethan 75% of their defensive possessions in the signature zone defense and finished in the top 10%nationally for teams who play more than 50% of their possessions in zone.
Coach Jollon came to Fairfield after serving two seasons as an assistant coach at Molloy College andprior to that he served six seasons as the head coach of Dean College. Serving as the RecruitingCoordinator at Molloy, Jollon signed two top-25 Long Island Goldstar recruits, and an All-State playerfrom Connecticut as part of his first recruiting classes. In his first season at Molloy, under 2013 WBCACoach of the Year, Kate Lynch, the Lions enjoy their first playoff experience and winning conferencerecord in 3 years.
At Dean College, Coach Jollon was the head coach for six seasons where he finished as the all-timewinningest NJCAA coach inits history. He recorded a .610 winning percentage while amassing an 85-52record, the most victories for any coach in the program’s history. During his tenure at Dean, the Bulldogsqualified for the regional tournament every year. His teams made their name on defense and in his finaltwo seasons they ranked in the top-10 nationally in both points allowed per game and defensive field goalpercentage.
At Dean, Jollon was also a relentless recruiter, by bringing n i12 All-Region players and one PreseasonAll-American. During his time at Dean, eight players were able to earn spots on NCAA scholarshipprograms with their development under his tutelage. One of those players, ShellyMonahan finished second in the country in scoring while at Dean and reached the 1000 point plateau inher two years at the college, one of only two players in the history of Dean College to reach that mark.Monahan transferred to Concordia College and broke a record for most points in a game in the Clippershistory at 31 while netting 8-of-10 three pointers in that game.
In addition to his recruiting wins throughout his career, player development became a key field for Jollonat Molloy College, as he helped in the development of Nicole Arnone, who signed a professional contractfor the Portlaoise Panthers, a team in Ireland’s top division for women’s professional basketball. He alsoaided in the development of Kelly Guerriero who was the 2014 Division II National Statistical Championfor 3-pointers per game with 3.5. At Fairfield Coach Jollon was charged with the post player development.Fairfield post players garnered numerous accolades including multiple all-conference awards and havehad successful career professionally overseas.
Coach Jollon earned his Bachelors Degree from Thomas Edison State University and resides with hiswife Kate and daughter Saylor and son Jack in Branford, Conn.
