Jill Jacobs

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Outstanding Achievers:
Jill Jacobs, Forward, Marshall Tigers

How She Got Started

Jill's father, Mark Jacobs, talks about himself:

I grew up in Princeton,[Minnesota], played your standard football, basketball, and baseball. I was always a sports fan. I watched all the state hockey tournaments during the 60's. All the great International Falls teams, the St. Paul Johnson teams and the Mpls Southwest teams. I graduated in '70. I did play hockey Intramurals in college, but obviously with no skills, but just enjoyment of playing. But during that time of high school the Northstars started up and became a big fan of them also. I just always loved watching hockey.

Our oldest son (who played basketball in high school) wanted to switch to hockey in 5th grade, but we hmmm and hawed to the point of not doing it. Actually both he and I regret not making the switch. But, we started Jeff at Age 5, in hockey, and you could say our hockey parenting begin.

There is nothing like being a hockey parent, right? The comraderie of the parents, the kids, the trips, the joys, the disappointments, taking care of other kids when their parents couldn't make it to a game or tournament. In the end it was the friendships that sustained it all.

Jill started skating at age four, and playing hockey at age five. She grew up watching her older brother, Jeff Jacobs, all the time and loved it.

As Jill tells it:

I have lived in Marshall my whole life and grew up playing here at the local rink. (started with mini-mites for a couple years and then joined girls 12U.)

I would join Jeff in shooting around in the garage, and he'd give me little pointers, but with the 5 year age difference we never really got to play together on the ice. I played more street hockey with the neighborhood boys than anyone.

Before playing High School hockey I played mini-mites, girls 12U and 15U.

At one of my first hockey practices, I stepped onto the ice and quickly came back off telling my dad that my skates were really hurting my feet. He sat me down and looked at my skates only to see that he had tied them on the wrong feet.

Jill Jacobs, Forward, Senior, No.21, Marshall Lady Tigers

Her High School Stats

Season

Grade

Games

Goals

Assists

Points

Pts/Gm

2003-04

8th

Honorable Mention All-State.

2004-05

9th

Career points: 157.
Honorable Mention All-State.

2005-06

10th

3.92

   Highest pts/gm average in the state.
   Career: 251 points
   Listing of "Most Career Points for 10th Graders"..
                               Jill is No. 5 .
   Honorable Mention All-State.

She is a very good leader for me. She leads by example,she is one of those players that just knows how to score goals. As much as she likes to score, I honestly feel she likes to help her team mates score even more.
Marshall Tigers coach Kevin Schroeder

2006-07

11th

2.87

Career: 337 points
Honorable Mention All-State

Jill had a great year; she had a lot of extra responsibility this year being one of the captains. And still managed to put up great numbers, she one of those players that's just fun to watch, she knows where to be on the ice; has great stickhandling abilities . She is also one of those players that is a natural scorer, she really understands the game. She was part of a team that set high goals and worked extremely hard to achieve those goals, it was fun to be part of it. Coach Schroeder

2007-08

12th

2.65

Career: 406 points

We had a very successful season; it was fun to watch the team set expectations in June and work so hard to make them come true. Jill really stepped up as senior captain should. Her and the other captains got everyone focus when they needed to be. Good year all around
Coach Schroeder

A Final Tribute

She is a very good leader for me. She leads by example. She is one of those players that just knows how to score goals. As much as she likes to score, I honestly feel she likes to help her team mates score even more. She doesn't think scoring all those goals is a big thing.
                                             Coach Kevin Schroeder, 5-30-2006

Jill lead the Marshall Tigers to their first ever Section Championship and State Tournament berth:         [ Sec 3A Champs ]    [ All About Jill ]

Jill is the quiet-leader of the Lady Tigers: Marshall's girls hockey team. She leads by example. Her style of play is with a genteel (refined) sense of grace and dignity. A style that has helped the Lady Tigers to the 2007 Section 3A Championship and a berth in the State Tournament. A style that has helped her accumulate 337 points thus far in her high school career.
John of MNPuck, Feb 22, 2007

Even with all of their personal records, the biggest thing Jill and the other seniors want in their final high school year is another trip to the state tournament, according to Coach Schroeder.

�They are working hard to make it happen. Everything we talk about is about the team. We win or lose as a team,� he said. �If they get that individual recognition they get it, but we don�t worry about that much as a team.�
Marshall INDEPENDENT, Feb 5, 2008

Career: 406 points. This puts Jill at No.10 on the Top Career Scorers
listing.

To the State Tournament - - - Twice.

Rise Magazine (2-26-2008) chose two top girls hockey players for the 2007-08 season:
- - - AP 2008 Player of the Year, Lauren Smith.
- - - Leading Career Scorer (among players in 2007-08),
Jill Jacobs (406 career pts)