Jeff Calhoon

Biola Athletics announced Jeff Calhoon as its 11th head baseball coach in July 2019. He comes to Biola after spending last season as recruiting coordinator and assistant coach at Point Loma.

Biola Baseball’s start to the 2020 season was a great testament to the personality and culture the new coaching staff wanted to instill in the Eagles. Coach Calhoon picked up his first win, first series win and first PacWest win as a head coach in just over a month and led the newly-dubbed Biola Boys to their first national ranking as a NCAA DII program on February 19, 2020. The Eagles would hold down the No. 2 spot in the West Region poll all four weeks new rankings were released and would eventually climb to a No. 8 national ranking in the final poll of the season.

The year started with a series sweep of Cal State Monterey Bay punctuated by a walk-off homerun from Ben Smith on February 1. Then the Eagles would go on a seven-game win streak that began when Biola won all five games it played over a three-day span from February 13 to 15. Eagles players picked up six weekly awards before the 2020 season was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic: RobertAnthony Cruz won PacWest Player of the Week after the first weekend of the season, Andrew Beauvais was named Freshman of the Week on February 17 and Larson Kindreich won three PacWest Pitcher of the Week awards of the first three weeks of the season and a NCBWA West Region Pitcher of the week nod after striking of 15 in a seven-inning shutout of Colorado Springs on February 14.

Kindreich would strikeout 48 batters over 30 innings and set two NCAA-Era program records: 25.2 consecutive scoreless innings and a 0.00 ERA over his 30 frames of work.

Prior to his year at Point Loma, Calhoon was an assistant coach at UC San Diego for three seasons and Westmont College the two years before that. Calhoon's teams went 232-114 over his six years as an assistant coach. In his four years with NCAA Division II programs, the teams made NCAA postseason three times, including twice advancing to the NCAA Division II Baseball Championship. Both of his seasons at Westmont he helped the Warriors to NAIA postseason berths, including a 2014 Golden State Athletic Conference tournament championship.

Calhoon played his college ball at NCAA Division I Niagara University. He was a catcher for the Purple Eagles, appearing in 59 games over his two seasons with the program. Prior to his time at Niagara he was an all-conference player at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Washington. He's originally from Snohomish, Washington.

As an assistant coach Calhoon worked with a lot with the catchers on his teams, grooming at least one of his catchers to all-conference honors in each of the last three seasons.

On Dec. 3, 2016, Calhoon was chosen to be among the speakers at San Diego State as part of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Barnstormers 2016 West Coast Clinics, presenting a session on base running. He's also presented on catching at the same clinic. In 2019 he was invited to speak on catching at the ABCA national coaches convention.

Calhoon's time at Point Loma and Westmont prepare him well for taking the reigns of a competitive baseball program at a faith-based institution. And he received numerous endorsements and votes of confidence from several well-respected men in the college baseball coaching community:

Calhoon earned a B.S. in communication studies while playing at Niagara and then went on to attain an M.A. in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia Irvine.