Dordt University

"From my experience with this coach where he is an assistant coach at the University of the Ozarks, he does not care for the development of the players and only cares for the players that he can build personal relationships with where he considers themselves as “his guys”. This coach makes it very obvious about the select players he cares for where he would personally buy his favorite players snacks and drinks and invites them to the clubhouse hours before practice or games to have a little “get together” and would not do something like that for players he doesn’t really care for. On multiple occasions in the Fall and Spring semesters, this coach will spend almost his entire time standing with one of the first baseman that he considers him as one of “his guys” during batting practice near the cage and on first base whether for practice or before games while holding a fungo bat in his hands ultimately showing that he has no care for most of the players to develop nor does he have a care to help infielders take ground balls to get warmed up and prepared. From my experience in the Fall and Spring semesters, he would privately approach and reprimand players that he heard from other players, mainly his select favorites that suck up to him, speaking out against his coaching style and even stuff unrelated to baseball and more on him as a person or his lifestyle. He is also a terrible motivator as his solution for the team to get motivated is not by hearing it from him or the head coach but instead searching for motivational speeches everyday before practices and games which does not give the team any sort of drive to get better or go out and win games. He has also been a result of the poor team culture that has happened at Ozarks where there is no form of leadership whatsoever and due to the result of favoritism happening on his end and the head coaches end, it has resulted in a very selfish environment where almost every player only cares about their individual performance in the game instead of if the team won or lost. If you are a player and if ever get recruited by this coach, carefully consider your options with him and how he goes about recruiting you."

"Rather play favorites, or the girls that go cry to him about their playing time. Rather try and make people happy than actually win. Questioning his knowledge of softball and how to play the game. Carries way too big of a roster. He lies to get you there, talks way too much. He doesn’t do his job, The way he plays rosters creates a bad culture of girls always wondering if they will play , has no depth chart, tells every girl their great rather than the truth. He should be evaluated by the AD . "

"Doesn't care about development of players or team development. Players are not evaluated on performance but instead solely on if your the coach's "guy". The coach has implemented a system where the JV squad only practices 3 days a week at the most and even then it's sketchy. The coach has publicly reprimanded players for speaking about him outside of practice time when it was passed to him that another coach heard players discussing team related material. The coach rarely, if ever, interacts with players to provide development suggestions or encouragement. If you're a player considering playing or a parent with a son considering playing for him I'd suggest that you consider your options carefully and be wary of the sales pitch."

"Lacks knowledge Discriminates based on religious beliefs Disrespectful Breaks confidentiality No understanding of the game Coaches on gut, not statistics Creates a toxic culture Incompetent Immature Hot-headed "

"I do not say this lightly, but he is simply the worst coach I’ve ever experienced. He lacks knowledge, leadership, is not caring to players unless you are his 1 favorite and even then he will use you til your broken and does not care about players health whatsoever. Do not be fooled by his first impressions, I have yet to meet a player that actually likes this man, they are just too scared to speak up for themselves. He has Napoleon syndrome 100%. Theirs is so many awful instances I could tell about this man, but if you are wanting to enjoy your college softball experience do not go here. There are plenty of good coaches out there, Jeff Zomer will never be capable of being a good coach. He is extremely un encouraging, and quite literally throws tantrums like a 5 year old. If you are up to bat and look to your coach at 3rd for a little pep and encouragement/swing correction, don’t expect him to help you or encourage, rather his arms crossed giving you a look of sheer disgust, and then yelling at you how unacceptable your Performance is even if you hit a double. He does not know what team unity means. He is more than willing to put his players health and safety on the line if it means it win for his ego. I don’t know if a girl on the team who was mentally in a healthy place while playing on his team. People have tried to get them fired and I’m truly not sure why it is he still there because it has been many people coming forward as of late, but when he finds out people come forward he takes it out on other players when he finds out they associated with the people to get him fired and makes their lives miserable. I mean this with all sincerity if you were looking for a sign, whether you should make the decision of going here to be coached by Jeff Zomer or not, let this be your sign to NOT. "