Dillon “DJ” Jenkins, who previously served as a coach at two other Southern Conference schools, has been selected as the assistant men’s basketball coach at Miami Dade College.
Jenkins, 27, will assist with the team’s offensive game plan, running practices, recruiting and making sure players are attending study hall.
He joins first-year head coach Jorge Fernandez’s staff at MDC. Fernandez won a state championship at Doral Academy Preparatory School in 2018 and has served as an assistant coach at the University of Miami and Marshall University.
“I don’t know everything,” said Jenkins, who earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bradley University, in Peoria, Illinois. “I want to get to the level that Fernandez has been at so surrounding myself with guys like [him] is something that will help me grow.”
Jenkins spent last year at Florida SouthWestern State College in Fort Myers where he helped with recruiting, scheduling and fundraising. The previous season, he was an assistant coach and a recruiting coordinator at Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne.
Prior to his assistant coaching stints in Florida, Jenkins served as a coach—including one season as the associate head coach—at Southwestern Community College in Iowa.
