Widener University Athletics

Jeff Baxter is in his second season as an assistant coach for the Pride. Baxter competed in men’s lacrosse at Saint Joseph’s University, where he was a four-year starter at attack. He helped the Hawks win the school’s first conference championship in 2000 and remains one of the top goal scorers in school history. Baxter is a 1996 graduate of Cardinal O’Hara High School in Springfield PA, where he was an All-Catholic League selection in both lacrosse and football. Baxter serves as the Eastern Pennsylvania Competition Director for the Special Olympics. He also has worked for United Sport Training Center in Downingtown, PA as a lacrosse league, camp and tournament director. Baxter in 2002 worked in Manchester, England for the English Lacrosse Association, where he was a local program director, expanding the game of men’s and women’s lacrosse to youth in Southern Manchester’s elementary and secondary schools. Baxter graduated from Saint Joseph’s University in 2000 with a BS in Marketing, and from Neumann College in 2004 with an MS in Sport Management. He married head coach Robin Baxter in May 2007 and the couple welcomed their first daughter, Campbell, last August.