Ryan Jacobs serves as Head Coach for University of Northern Iowa's Softball program in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Coach Jacobs enters his 19th season as the head of the UNI softball program in 2025-26. With a career record of 529-372, he is the winningest softball coach in the Panthers' Division I history and ranks sixth all-time in overall wins and conference wins in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC).
Jacobs has been part of the Northern Iowa softball program since assuming the head coaching position in June 2007. In that time, he had led his team to four MVC regular season championships (2012, 2017, 2022, 2023), the 2013 MVC Tournament title and a pair of NCAA Regional appearances (2013, 2021). UNI has also won 30+ games 10 times under Jacobs, including in each of the previous five years. UNI has posted 15 seasons with a record of.500 or better, and 15 seasons over.500 in MVC play, including nine straight years from 2008 to 2017.
