Staff Directory
- Title:
- Director of Operations
- Email:
- Phone:
- 205-348-4029
Jenny Sanders, who was hired as the program's Director of Operations in 2023, will begin her second season in the same role with the Crimson Tide in 2025. Sanders is amid her 15th year overall working in Alabama Athletics.
Sanders spent the 2022-23 seasons serving as the Crimson Tide's Director of Player Development. In that role, she assisted with all aspects of the program from operations to academics. Her two-year stint in that role was highlighted by her helping Andrew Pinckney earn SEC Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year at the conclusion of the 2023 regular season.
Prior to her role working directly with Crimson Tide baseball, she served as an Academic Program Advisor for UA Athletics. In that position, she oversaw all facets of academics for the Alabama baseball, women's golf, softball and men's tennis teams, providing her student-athletes with comprehensive academic counseling to help them meet their academic goals. While in academics, Sanders helped coordinate submissions of all NCAA and SEC awards along with scholarship opportunities. She helped her student-athletes earn a combined 20 CoSIDA Academic All-America honors, including four academic All-American of the Year accolades.
With the baseball program, Sanders helped the Tide set a program-high mark for combined grade-point average during the 2017-18 season. The future rosters then improved upon that number each year until her promotion to the baseball staff, finishing the 2021-22 season with a then-program-high GPA. During that stretch, she helped Alabama garner at least one academic all-district honoree across four consecutive seasons from 2020-23, including an Academic All-American in Owen Diodati in 2022.
A member of the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals (N4A), Sanders graduated from The University of Alabama in 2009 with a Master's in Sport Management. She obtained her undergraduate degree from UA in psychology in 2008.
