College of Southern Maryland tabs Head Coaches for Baseball, Women's Basketball

Contributions from College of Southern Maryland Athletics.

La Plata, MD – College of Southern Maryland (CSM) welcomes two new head coaches to their staff with the announcement of recent hires, Ardell Jackson and Brad Sullivan. The Hawks welcome back Ardell Jackson to lead the women's basketball program, and remove the interim tag from baseball coach Brad Sullivan.  

This is Ardell Jackson's second stint as head coach of the Hawks women's basketball program. He previously served at the helm for five and a half seasons from the 2015-16 season up until halfway through the 2021-22 season. The Hawks did not compete during the 2020-21 year due to the COVID pandemic.

Jackson said he is "glad to be back at the wheel as the head coach and finish what I started eight years ago at the College Southern of Maryland. I am very excited to get back to working with a great athletic department and staff. The CSM women's basketball program has my heart, and I believe in the program and everything that the College of Southern Maryland has to offer to student-athletes and the community. We have so much work to do, but will look to build off the success of this year's team. We have some very talented young players on the roster that I really can't wait to start working with to develop their skills and get them ready for the 2023-2024 season."

Jackson is a Region 20 product himself, playing at Montgomery College Rockville from 1996 to 1998. During the 1998 season, he led MC-Rockville to win the NJCAA Region XX Championship and earn a berth in the National Tournament at SUNY Delhi in New York. While at MC-Rockville, he was named All-Region XX First Team and All-Maryland JUCO Second Team.

Brad Sullivan served as the interim head baseball coach for the spring 2023 season after previously working with the Hawks as an assistant coach, the third base coach, and the hitting coach from 2018-2022. 

Sullivan has been with the CSM baseball program since the 2017 season. That year, he started as a volunteer assistant coach, then became a paid assistant coach in 2018.

"I am very excited to take over the baseball program here at the College of Southern Maryland full-time," Sullivan said. "I thought this past season was a successful season and a good stepping stone in preparing myself to be the full-time head coach. I have been fortunate to have two great assistant coaches - Todd Snell and Zach Roll - help me this past year as the interim head coach. I am excited for us to have the opportunity to work with this team for a full year. I was lucky enough to coach under the previous head coach, Aaron Michael. I learned a lot from him and am looking forward to using those lessons in my first full year as coach. I am excited for this opportunity and looking forward to keeping the winning tradition that CSM has established these past few years."

To read the full release about Coach Jackson, visit here. For Coach Sullivan's release, visit here.