Messiah University

Jacob Fleegle enters his first season as the Messiah men's basketball head coach in the 2025-26 season. Fleegle spent the last four seasons at Emory University as the assistant coach. 

Coaching Bio
Jacob Fleegle spent the last four season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Emory University. Fleegle was promoted to Associate Head Coach this March, after Emory had an excellent season, finishing fifth in the d3hoops.com final poll and making it to the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament. Fleegle also helped Emory achieve a 72-30 overall record with three trips to the National Tournament and one Staff of the Year honors in 2022. Fleegle also coached one first-team All-American, one UAA Player of the Year, one UAA Rookie of the Year, three All-Region players, and three 1,000-point scorers.
 
Before his time at Emory, Fleegle was an associate head coach for a season and an assistant coach at Juniata College for two seasons and assisted at Carnegie Mellon for a season. During his time at Juniata, he helped lead the Eagles to their first conference tournament in four seasons and coached three All-Conference selections.
 
Fleegle played and then served as a graduate assistant at Waynesburg University. During his playing time for the Yellow Jackets, Fleegle started in 102 games and scored 1070 career points and grabbed 438 career rebounds. Fleegle was also a captain for three seasons and a CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree once, while making Waynesburg's Dean List in every semester. As a graduate assistant, Fleegle helped the Yellow Jackets have three All-PAC honorees and one 1,000-point scorer.
 
Fleegle has also helped with many camps around every stop he has made as assistant coach. He also has worked camps with Michigan State University, VCU, University of Dayton, and University of Pennsylvania.