The Loyola University New Orleans Athletic Department announced the hiring of Jeremy Kennedy as the new head coach of the baseball program on June 24, 2019. Kennedy, a five-time conference coach of the year selection, became the ninth head coach in Loyola history. 

Kennedy’s 2025 season as head coach of Loyola New Orleans baseball has been nothing short of historic. In his sixth year at the helm, the Wolf Pack recorded program records for wins (42), hits (597), and runs (516) to notch the program’s fifth straight 30-win season. Under his guidance, Loyola claimed the SSAC Championship title and a berth to the NAIA World Series, both being program firsts. The team went 42-18 overall and 20-10 in SSAC play to finish second in the regular-season standings, but the Pack claimed a series over first-place William Carey to finish the regular season, then defeated the Crusaders in the SSAC tournament title game. The program finished No. 7 in the NAIA Top 25, which marks the best position in the national poll for the program, and he enters 2026 with 589 all-time wins and 199 wins at Loyola.

Loyola reached 30 wins for the fourth straight season in Year 5 for Kennedy. The Wolf Pack went 37-19 overall and 18-12 in league play, earning the program’s second trip to the NAIA National Championship tournament under Kennedy. The Pack earned Top 25 wins over No. 21 Texas Wesleyan, No. 2 Georgia Gwinnett and No. 14 Bellevue this season as well.

Kennedy led the Wolf Pack to their third straight 30-win season in his fourth year at Loyola, guiding the team to a 31-22 overall record. The Wolf Pack skipper also got win No. 100 with the program against Houston-Victoria on Feb. 24, and he captured career win No. 500 on April 16 against Blue Mountain Christian. Loyola advanced to the SSAC Championship semifinals for the third straight season with wins over No. 4-seeded Middle Georgia and No. 8 seed Blue Mountain Christian, but fell to top-seeded William Carey in the semifinal round. Kennedy now has 120 wins and 70 losses as Loyola’s head coach, which makes him the fifth winningest coach in program history. Also, Kennedy recruited two junior college transfers in Brandon Mooney and Cole Romero, who turned into SSAC All-Conference First- and Second-Teamers with dominant seasons.

In his third year with the program, Kennedy's Wolf Pack team made history in the postseason, winning its first-ever game in the NAIA National Championship tournament. The team would win three-straight games in the Opening Round, but fell one win short of a trip to the NAIA World Series. After tying the 2021 team with 36 wins, the 2022 Loyola team broke several hitting records, smashing a program-record 63 home runs while totaling 535 hits, 423 runs, 371 RBI, and 470 strikeouts thrown, all of which are program highs. The team also had a team slugging percentage of .462 and an on-base percentage of .415, both team records. The Wolf Pack started the season ranked 12th in the NAIA, finishing the year ranked No. 23, with five players earning All-Conference honors. 
 

Under Kennedy in 2021, his second season with the program, Loyola won its first-ever Southern States Athletic Conference title while also breaking several team school records: wins (36), home runs (43), runs scored (367), RBI (326), slugging percentage (.438), on-base percentage (.409) and strikeouts thrown (387). The Wolf Pack appeared in the NAIA Top 25 poll for the first time ever, too, ending the season ranked No. 14, which was the fifth straight poll Loyola was ranked. The program also hosted its first-ever NAIA Opening Round tournament as well. Senior infielder Payton Alexander earned NAIA All-American honors, too, marking the third All-American in program history.
 

He led the Wolf Pack to a 17-9 overall record in his first season at the helm before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the season in March 2020. At the plate, Loyola hit .282 as a team, which was the best mark since the team hit .294 in 2010, and it already notched 15 home runs, 201 hits, 163 RBI and scored 189 runs in the 26-game season. Those 15 homers were more than Loyola hit in each of 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 seasons. On the base paths, Loyola was 120-for-130 in stolen bases in just 26 games. It ranked No.1 in the NAIA with 4.6 steals per game and five steal attempts per game, while the 120 swiped bags were good for second in the country. Brandon Duhon led that charge with 34 stolen bases, which was the fourth-most by a Wolf Pack player in a single season, while Payton Alexander recorded the 10th most with 20. No Wolf Pack team has recorded at least 100 steals in a season in the modern Dakstats era, which dates back to 2005.
 

Kennedy earned his 400th career win on Feb. 18, 2020, against Bryant & Stratton College. 
 

Prior to his one year with Bethany College, where he led the Swedes to a 10-game improvement compared to the season before, Kennedy spent three years at Northwood and Keiser University in Florida. In 2017, he guided the Seahawks baseball team to their first-ever NAIA World Series appearance and set the program record with 43 wins. He helped lead Keiser to 40-win seasons in each of his three years and was named the conference's coach of the year twice while claiming three conference championships, two in the regular season in 2015 and 2017, and one in the tournament in 2016. He coached five student-athletes who went on to sign professional baseball contracts, and guided three student-athletes to NAIA All-American honors.
 

Kennedy previously spent time working with Northwood University in Texas, before the campus closed after the 2014 season. During his seven years at Northwood, he led his program to three conference titles, earning coach of the year honors in each of those seasons. Eight of his student-athletes were named NAIA All-Americans during his time with the Knights, and 16 signed contracts to play professionally.
 

Prior to his first head coaching position with Northwood in 2007 Kennedy spent three years as an assistant at Dallas Baptist, where he helped the program transition from NCAA Division II to Division I and coached 2017 MLB World Series MVP Ben Zobrist. Kennedy played his college baseball at Barton County Community College and Dallas Baptist, and graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology.
 

Kennedy resides in New Orleans with his wife Heather and two daughters, Emersyn and Maklayne.