Jeff Pritchard is in his third season as an assistant coach for the San Jose State University baseball program in 2010. His main responsibilities are to serve as the hitting coach and as the recruiting and academic coordinator. He also coaches the catchers, oversees the prospect camps, and serves as the third base coach.

Pritchard has needed only a short amount of time to make a mark on the program on the field, on the recruiting trail, and in the classroom.

In just his second go-around directing the Spartan hitters, Pritchard oversaw a group that broke seven single-season school marks. On its way to the 2009 Western Athletic Conference regular-season crown, San Jose State shattered the previous program record of .319 in 1993 by batting .339, second in the league, while generating additional standards for runs (472), hits (723), doubles (135), RBI (424), total bases (1,007) and sacrifices (92 combined). The Spartans had six players hit .335 or better with 160-plus at-bats, led by Jacob Bruns at .399, third-best in the WAC, and fourth-round draft choice Kyle Bellows at .389, both with slugging percentages above .600. The Spartans belted 43 home runs, their highest team total since they hit 52 in 2002.

In September of 2009, Pritchard's recruiting class for the 2010 campaign was rated No. 42 nationally and No. 1 in the WAC by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. 

In December of 2008, Pritchard was recognized at the Arm & Pat Hanzad Scholar-Athlete Celebration as the recipient of the SJSU Athletics Board Academic Assistant Coach of the Year award, due in large part to guiding the Spartans to the top GPA among men's teams at San Jose State for the fall 2007 and spring 2008 semesters combined.

Pritchard made the short trip over to San Jose State from Santa Clara University, where he served as an assistant under former Spartan player and current Bronco head coach Mark O'Brien during the 2007 season. He was a hitting and fielding instructor, coached first base, co-directed the Bronco camps, developed and oversaw community outreach, and helped with recruiting.

During the 2007 summer, Pritchard was the head coach of the Mat-Su Miners, located in Palmer, Alaska, of the Alaska Baseball League. The Miners were ranked as high as fifth on the PG Crosschecker Summer 16 chart, which rates the nation's top college summer league clubs, and named ABL co-champions with a 24-11 season mark. In the summer of 2006, Pritchard was the associate head coach of the Kauai Menehunes of the Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League. The Menehunes finished in second-place.

Prior to his year on the Santa Clara staff, Pritchard was an assistant coach at the University of California of the Pacific-10 Conference for the 2006 season. From 2002-05, he was the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at San Francisco State University for then-Gator head coach and former Spartan assistant coach Matt Markovich.

Pritchard was also the head coach of the Monterey Bay Sox in Monterey, Calif., during the summer of 2005, earning California Coastal Collegiate League Manager of the Year honors while leading the Bay Sox to the 2005 National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan., and a final national ranking of 13th.

A native of Carmel Valley, Calif., Pritchard earned an associate degree in liberal studies in 1997 from Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, Calif., a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of San Francisco in 2000, and a master's degree in English from San Francisco State during the fall of 2006.

As a player, Pritchard was a 1996 junior college All-American, two-time All-Western State Conference pick, 1996 WSC batting champion and two-time team Most Valuable Player at Allan Hancock before moving on to play two seasons as an outfielder at USF. Pritchard then played professional baseball in the independent leagues with three separate teams from 1999-2002. He and his wife, Carrie, welcomed a daughter, Peyton, in September of 2009, and currently reside in San Jose, Calif.