Florida State University Athletics
Baseball
Jarrett, Link
Link Jarrett
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- coachjarrett@fsu.edu
- Phone:
- 850-644-1073
Link Jarrett, a two-time National Coach of the Year at Notre Dame and a 1994 Florida State graduate, is in his fourth season as Florida State head coach in 2026. Having coached FSU to back-to-back NCAA Super Regional appearances, and a berth in the College World Series in 2024, Jarrett was named the 10th head baseball coach in FSU history on June 24, 2022. The Tallahassee native has 13 years of head coaching experience and has led teams to the College World Series in two of the last four years, at Florida State in 2024 and at Notre Dame in 2022, which was just UND’s third CWS berth in school history. In the last five years, Jarrett is the only NCAA D-I coach to play in a two Super Regionals and a College World Series at two different schools, achieving the feat at Noter Dame in 2021-22 and at FSU in 2024-25.
For his career, Jarrett is 415-262 with five NCAA Tournament appearances. He is 114-64 in three years at FSU, becoming the sixth coach in team history to eclipse the 100-win mark and the fourth to do it in his third season.
In his third season in 2024, Jarrett guided Florida State back to the NCAA Super Regionals, one of only five teams to reach back-to-back Supers, while leading FSU to a runner-up finish and No. 2 seed at the conference tournament, both the team’s best since 2014. With a 42-16 overall mark and a 17-10 record in the ACC, the Seminoles were one of three ACC teams to win at least 66% of their league series and every non-conference series, with six of nine league series won and four sweeps in non-conference weekend action. Alex Lodise won the 2025 Dick Howser Trophy as the nation’s top amateur player, FSU’s first since 2008, and was named the ACC Player and Defensive Player of the Year. Lodise and Jamie Arnold were named consensus All-Americans, the second consecutive year the program has reached that mark, as Arnold was the team’s first multiple-time All-American in consecutive years since 2021-22. Arnold was selected 11th overall in the 2025 MLB Draft to headline a program-record 11 draft selections, a total which led the country. The Seminoles’ highest overall draft pick since 2008 and third-highest pitcher, Arnold gives the team three first-round picks in two years, the third time that has happened and first since 1994-95.
Jarrett’s second season at FSU saw the Seminoles return to Omaha in 2024 for the first time in five seasons. As the team went 49-17 and advanced to the national semifinals, three players earned All-America honors and eight were picked in the Major League Baseball draft. James Tibbs III, Jamie Arnold and Cam Smith were named All-Americans, with Tibbs a unanimous first team selection. In the MLB Draft, Tibbs, at No. 13 overall, and Smith, at No. 14, are the first Florida State teammates taken in the top 15 of a single draft in program history, and they’re the third duo, and first since 1995, to be selected in the first round. Tibbs also was named the ACC Player of the Year.
In his first season at Florida State, Jarrett had three players selected in the Major League Baseball draft, while James Tibbs III and Jaime Ferrer had stellar seasons at the plate and return for their junior years in 2024. In his first year, Jarrett also oversaw the development of freshmen Jamie Arnold, Cam Smith and DeAmez Ross.
Under Jarrett, Notre Dame went 86-32 (.729), the second-best winning percentage in the country in that span. Notre Dame’s 44-21 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference was the best in the league.
Jarrett was the 2021 ACC Coach of the Year and the D1Baseball National Coach of the Year. After leading the Irish to a 41-17 record and a College World Series berth in 2022, Jarrett was named the NCBWA Mike Martin Coach of the Year.
Jarrett earned his bachelor’s degree in communication from Florida State in 1994. Jarrett and his wife, Jennifer – a former cheerleader at Florida State – have two children, J.T. a five-year baseball starter and 2022 Graduate in Sports Management, Business Leadership Development from NC State and Dawson, a recent graduate of the University of Alabama who majored in Apparel and Textiles, Fashion Retailing.
ACCOLADES:
For his career, Jarrett is 415-262 with five NCAA Tournament appearances. He is 114-64 in three years at FSU, becoming the sixth coach in team history to eclipse the 100-win mark and the fourth to do it in his third season.
In his third season in 2024, Jarrett guided Florida State back to the NCAA Super Regionals, one of only five teams to reach back-to-back Supers, while leading FSU to a runner-up finish and No. 2 seed at the conference tournament, both the team’s best since 2014. With a 42-16 overall mark and a 17-10 record in the ACC, the Seminoles were one of three ACC teams to win at least 66% of their league series and every non-conference series, with six of nine league series won and four sweeps in non-conference weekend action. Alex Lodise won the 2025 Dick Howser Trophy as the nation’s top amateur player, FSU’s first since 2008, and was named the ACC Player and Defensive Player of the Year. Lodise and Jamie Arnold were named consensus All-Americans, the second consecutive year the program has reached that mark, as Arnold was the team’s first multiple-time All-American in consecutive years since 2021-22. Arnold was selected 11th overall in the 2025 MLB Draft to headline a program-record 11 draft selections, a total which led the country. The Seminoles’ highest overall draft pick since 2008 and third-highest pitcher, Arnold gives the team three first-round picks in two years, the third time that has happened and first since 1994-95.
Jarrett’s second season at FSU saw the Seminoles return to Omaha in 2024 for the first time in five seasons. As the team went 49-17 and advanced to the national semifinals, three players earned All-America honors and eight were picked in the Major League Baseball draft. James Tibbs III, Jamie Arnold and Cam Smith were named All-Americans, with Tibbs a unanimous first team selection. In the MLB Draft, Tibbs, at No. 13 overall, and Smith, at No. 14, are the first Florida State teammates taken in the top 15 of a single draft in program history, and they’re the third duo, and first since 1995, to be selected in the first round. Tibbs also was named the ACC Player of the Year.
In his first season at Florida State, Jarrett had three players selected in the Major League Baseball draft, while James Tibbs III and Jaime Ferrer had stellar seasons at the plate and return for their junior years in 2024. In his first year, Jarrett also oversaw the development of freshmen Jamie Arnold, Cam Smith and DeAmez Ross.
Under Jarrett, Notre Dame went 86-32 (.729), the second-best winning percentage in the country in that span. Notre Dame’s 44-21 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference was the best in the league.
Jarrett was the 2021 ACC Coach of the Year and the D1Baseball National Coach of the Year. After leading the Irish to a 41-17 record and a College World Series berth in 2022, Jarrett was named the NCBWA Mike Martin Coach of the Year.
Jarrett earned his bachelor’s degree in communication from Florida State in 1994. Jarrett and his wife, Jennifer – a former cheerleader at Florida State – have two children, J.T. a five-year baseball starter and 2022 Graduate in Sports Management, Business Leadership Development from NC State and Dawson, a recent graduate of the University of Alabama who majored in Apparel and Textiles, Fashion Retailing.
ACCOLADES:
- Two-time National Coach of the Year at Notre Dame (2021, 2022)
- Three-time conference Coach of the Year (2016 & 2018 at UNC Greensboro; 2021 at Notre Dame)
- Two-time ABCA Regional Coach of the Year (2021, 2022)
- 2022 and 2024 College World Series – 2024 at Florida State and 2022 at Notre Dame, only the third in ND history
- Back-to-back Super Regionals for the first time in Notre Dame history, in 2021 and 2022
- Finished 41-17 in 2022, most wins for the Irish since 2006
- 415-62 career record as a Head Coach at UNC Greensboro (2013-19), Notre Dame (2020-22) and Florida State (2023-25)
- Jarrett was the head coach at UNC Greensboro for seven years (2013-19), winning Southern Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2016 and 2018. He led the Spartans to the 2017 and 2018 Southern Conference Regular Season Championship as well as the 2017 NCAA Regional, the first for UNCG since 1997.
- With Greensboro, Jarrett coached 28 players that earned All-SoCon honors, three conference pitchers of the year, a SoCon Player of the Year, seven all-region players and six All-Americans.
- Jarrett was an assistant coach at Auburn for three years (2010-12), earning SEC Assistant Coach of the Year honors in 2010 the same year Auburn won the SEC West. Jarrett was in charge of the team’s offense and helped the Tigers set school records for batting average (.348), home runs (131) and slugging percentage (.591), the latter two both national bests in NCAA Division I baseball. Auburn’s 816 hits, 584 runs and 9.1 runs per game also finished in the Top 10 in the nation and led the SEC.
- As an assistant at East Carolina from 2006-2009, Jarrett was part of a staff that led the Pirates to 40 wins per season including three NCAA regional appearances highlighted by a 2009 run to the Chapel Hill Super Regional.
- Jarrett was named the 2009 Conference USA Assistant Coach of the Year when the Pirates led the country with 814 hits and were top 20 in runs, doubles, home runs, slugging percentage and batting average.
- Jarrett was the recruiting coordinator for two seasons at Mercer (2004-05) and got his start in college coaching in 1999 at Flagler College in St. Augustine, where he coached for three years.
- Jarrett’s first stint at his alma mater came in 2003 when he was an assistant under Mike Martin. The Seminoles finished the year 54-13-1 and were the ACC regular-season champions and the No. 1 national seed in the NCAA tournament.
- Was a two-time All-American shortstop (1993 and 1994) and was part of Seminole teams that reached three College World Series and he still holds the NCAA record of 802 career assists.
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