Jeff Conarroe

Jeff Conarroe, a 1999 graduate and three-year letter winner in basketball at Colorado College, was named head men’s basketball coach on May 23, 2020.

Conarroe came to CC from Division I California State University, Bakersfield, where he spent the last nine seasons, the first eight as an assistant coach before his promotion to associate head coach prior to the 2019-20 campaign.

During his tenure at CSUB, Conarroe helped head coach Rod Barnes rebuild the program and send the `Runners to their first-ever berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament in 2016 and three postseason appearances in the last four years, excluding the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season.

On the court, the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons were the most memorable for the `Runners during Conarroe's tenure. He helped guide the team to a 49-19 record and a 26-2 mark in the Icardo Center during that span. In 2015-16, CSUB earned its spot in "March Madness" after winning the Western Athletic Conference tournament.

The following season, the `Runners won the WAC regular-season championship and became the first-ever No. 8 seed to reach the NIT semifinals. CSUB also finished No. 9 in the mid-major Top 25 with the highest RPI in program history at 59. The `Runners were in the Top 10 of several defensive categories nationally, including a No. 1 ranking in transition defense and No. 2 ranking in defensive points per possession, while the team included its first-ever Defensive All-American selection (Jaylin Airington).

The 2018-19 season featured CSUB's third trip to the postseason in the last four years as Bakersfield accepted an invitation to the CollegeInisder.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) and again proved to be a force on the road. CSUB won back-to-back games away from home before falling in the CIT quarterfinals.

Conarroe was integral in the academic transformation of the CSUB men's basketball program, which graduated 30 players in seven years. During that period, the program also achieved a perfect APR score of 1000 and raised the team cumulative grade-point average above 2.7. As a reflection of their efforts in the classroom, eight `Runners earned academic all-conference honors during Conarroe's tenure.

Prior to his stint at CSUB, Conarroe worked with Barnes as director of operations at Georgia State from 2007-11 and an administrative aide and graduate assistant at the University of Mississippi from 2003-06.

After playing basketball for three years at Colorado College and receiving the team's Tiger Award for inspirational leadership, Conarroe graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics and served as an assistant coach at the school during the 1999-2000 season.

Following a year away from the game, he spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Monarch High School in Louisville, Colo., before attending Ole Miss for graduate school. He earned his master's degree in business administration from Ole Miss in 2004.

Conarroe's wife, the former Mary Everett, lettered three years in Division I soccer and four years in Division III lacrosse at Colorado College. She is third on the career scoring list for lacrosse with 252 points and led the Tigers to their first-ever NCAA playoff berth as an All-America selection as a senior in 1999. As a member of the soccer team, she collected 18 career goals and 45 points and, in 2011, became was the first female inducted into the Colorado College Athletic Hall of Fame that played at both the Division I and III levels.

The Conarroe's are the proud parents of two sons, Caleb and Cooper.