Jenni Ashcroft

Biography

Jenni Ashcroft enters her ninth year with U-M for the 2025-26 season, serving as an assistant coach overseeing the jumping events and combined events for both genders through the 2021-22 academic year and taking on an associate head coach role beginning with the 2022-23 season. Ashcroft by the Numbers • Has coached or assisted in coaching four NCAA Champions • Has coached or assisted in coaching 50 All-Americans, including eleven at Michigan • Has coached or assisted in coaching 17 conference champions, including four at Michigan AT MICHIGAN • In the 2025 season, she coached graduate transfer John McNeil to a third-place finish in the high jump with a personal best mark of 2.16m at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. At the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, graduate student Clare McNamara had an incredible performance in the heptathlon, setting six personal-best marks, including coming in at No. 3 on the program performers list in the heptathlon (5,698 points) and No. 2 in the javelin throw (51.54m), to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. At the NCAAs, she finished 20th and earned Honorable Mention All-America honors. • In the 2024 season, she coached a pair of jumpers to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Riley Ammenhauser (triple jump) and Jake Wall (long jump). Ammenhauser earned an 18th place finish (12.90m) and Wall earned a 23rd place finish (7.09m). Ammenhauser also set the outdoor triple jump record of 13.06m. Tianhao Wei advanced to the NCAA East Preliminary Round,