Linebackers
Email: jakes@tabor.eduPhone: 620-947-3121 ext. 1606
Length of time at Tabor: Since 2008
Athletic Background
Jake
was an all-state football player from Smith Center (Kan.) High School
graduating in 2002. He was selected to play in the Kansas Shrine Bowl
after his senior year before beginning a stellar career at Tabor
College. At Tabor, he started at linebacker for four years and was a
four-time all-KCAC player. He led the team in tackles all four years
and in his senior year helped lead the Bluejays to an 11-1 record, a
conference championship and to the second round in the national
playoffs. As a senior, he was named KCAC Co-Defensive Player of the year and earned NAIA First-Team All-American honors playing for the Bluejay defense. As important, he earned the NAIA's Champion of Character Award in his junior and senior years.
Today,
Coach Schenk still holds Tabor College records for total tackles, solo
tackles, and tackles for loss. After graduating in 2006 with degrees in
Physical Education and Biblical/Religious Studies, he coached outside
linebackers at Greenville College in Illinois. In the spring of 2007,
he participated in TREK,
a six-month missions program, which included three months in Egypt.
Last year Coach Schenk served as a Youth Pastor and K-Life area
director in Norman, Okla.
Family
Jake's
parents, Randy and Sheila Schenk, live and work in Smith Center, Kan.
He has three older brothers and all of them coach football. Two of them
at Malone College in Canton, Ohio and he has one brother coaching at
Sterling College.
What is your coaching style?
My
goal for coaching is not only to improve skill and technique on the
field that improves performance, but also to teach and example a life
of character that would be worthy of being called a follower of Jesus
Christ. My goal is glorify the name of Jesus Christ in all that
surrounds the life of a college football coach. I believe in hard work
and making sure the little things are done right. I desire to see the
players become students of the game.
What is special about athletics at Tabor?
Tabor
is a great place of community that allows student-athletes to pursue
excellence on the field and also in the classroom. As an athlete at
Tabor, I loved the fact that the athletic programs wanted to see
student-athletes grow in their walk with Jesus Christ and also excel on
and off the field as representatives of Christ's kingdom.
How do you integrate faith into coaching?
My
goal is for Jesus Christ to be the center of all that I do. As a coach,
I want to set an example as a man who lives to glorify Jesus Christ.
