{"id":39723,"date":"2026-10-21T16:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/awards-nominations\/athletic-hall-of-fame\/jackie-short-13-2026-hof\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:49:02","slug":"jackie-short-13-2026-hof","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/awards-nominations\/athletic-hall-of-fame\/jackie-short-13-2026-hof\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Short \u201913 \u2014 2026 Athletic Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jackie Short \u201913<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Jackie Short knows how to close. No, she\u2019s not a trial lawyer, or a realtor, or a short-relief pitcher in major league baseball. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, she was second in the nation (!) with eight game-winning goals in her junior season of NCAA Division III Hornet soccer. Now, that\u2019s closing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Jackie was excellent throughout entire games as well. She earned all-conference second-team honors her first season as a Hornet. After that, it was All-MIAA first-team<\/em> three consecutive years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three times she led the Hornets in goals and points, and once in goals, assists and points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her first season, she tied for second in the MIAA for goals and points, a feat she repeated in that stellar junior season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a junior she also made the NSCAA All-Central Region second team, and she scored a goal in six consecutive games, which tied a Hornet record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her senior year, Jackie made the MIAA Academic Honor Roll and was named Kalamazoo College\u2019s Outstanding Female Athlete. She was the epitome of a student-athlete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackie matriculated to K from Troy Athens High School (Troy, Mich.). She majored in psychology and studied abroad in Madrid, Spain. Her Senior Individualized Project she titled \u201cThe Effects of Training Working Memory in Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury.\u201d Somehow, she also made time to sing in the College\u2019s a cappella group \u201cThe Limelights.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since graduating from K, Jackie has specialized in hospital IT health systems in various Michigan hospitals, including Corewell Health System, Sparrow Health System\/University of Michigan, and currently Henry Ford Health, where she was recently promoted to the position of systems architect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackie is a frequent presenter at national healthcare conferences, at which she discusses new initiatives in medical charting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKalamazoo College offered the best of everything,\u201d says Jackie. \u201cThe best education, best opportunities and the best way to combine athletics and my studies.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past five years, Jackie has served as an assistant soccer coach for two Troy schools. She recently stepped back from that to spend more time with her four-year-old daughter, Zoey. She also has a \u201cside hustle called Tiny Hands Studio, where,\u201d she says, \u201cI embroider apparel for friends and family.\u201d Tiny Hands\u2014a pretty good name for the \u201ccreative outlet\u201d of an athlete feted for the feats of her great feet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackie’s Athletic Achievements at Kalamazoo College<\/strong><\/summary>
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