Margo Jonker

Margo F. Jonker is an American softball coach and the current head coach of the Central Michigan Chippewas. She was a 2003 inductee in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Margo F. Jonker

Biographical details
Born	1953/1954 (age 66–67)[1]
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
College Softball
1977–1979	Grand Valley State (asst.)
1978–1979	West Ottawa High School
1980–2019	Central Michigan
Volleyball
1976	Hope College
1977–1978	Hope College (asst.)
1979	Central Michigan (asst.)
National Softball
1998–2000	USA Women's Softball (asst.)
Head coaching record
Overall	Softball: 1246–780–6 (.615) Volleyball: 12–15 (.444)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
10× MAC Regular Season Champions (1982, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2017) 11x MAC Tournament Champions (1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2013) MAC East Division Champions (1984) 7× MAC West Division Champions (1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2017)
Awards
NFCA Hall of Fame (2003) 10× MAC Coach of the Year (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2017) NFCA Coach of the Year (1987) NCAA Mideast Region Coach of the Year (1987) 2× NFCA Great Lakes Regional Coach of the Year (1994, 2000) Grand Valley State Hall of Fame (1989) Michigan Amateur Softball Hall of Fame (2000) West Ottawa High School Hall of Fame (2001) Metro Detroit Amateur Softball Association (2014)
Medal record Assistant Coach for Women's Softball Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team Assistant Coach for ISF Women's World Championship 1998 Fujinomiya Assistant Coach for Softball at the Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg

Career

During her 31 years as head coach, the Chippewas have gone to the NCAA tournament 13 times and have 11 Mid-American Conference (MAC) titles. Jonker was formerly an assistant softball coach at Grand Valley State University and head coach at West Ottawa High School. CMU's Margo Jonker stadium is named after her.

At the 2000 Olympics she served as an assistant coach on the United States Olympic softball team that captured the gold medal in Sydney, Australia.[2]

She is a Holland, Michigan native and attended and played softball for the Grand Valley State Lakers.[3]

Head coaching record

Volleyball

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Hope College (Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1976–1976)
1976	Hope	12–15		4th
Hope:		12–15 (.444)
Total:		12–15 (.444)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

Softball

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Central Michigan () (1980–1981)
1980	Central Michigan	16–12
1981	Central Michigan	30–13–1
Central Michigan (Mid-American Conference) (1982–2019)
1982	Central Michigan	51–12		1st	AIAW Women's College World Series
1983	Central Michigan	36–17–2	6–2–1	2nd (West)	NCAA Regional
1984	Central Michigan	34–11–1	8–2	1st (East)
1985	Central Michigan	44–12	12–4	2nd	NCAA Regional
1986	Central Michigan	45–20	16–2	1st	NCAA Regional
1987	Central Michigan	37–14	11–1	1st	Women's College World Series
1988	Central Michigan	38–23	18–14	5th
1989	Central Michigan	29–27	15–17	5th
1990	Central Michigan	32–22	14–9	3rd
1991	Central Michigan	39–22	21–7	1st	NCAA Regional
1992	Central Michigan	29–20	14–13	4th
1993	Central Michigan	26–26	17–13	5th
1994	Central Michigan	32–24	23–11	1st	NCAA Regional
1995	Central Michigan	26–21	21–12	2nd
1996	Central Michigan	40–21	26–6	1st	NCAA Regional
1997	Central Michigan	41–22	22–6	1st	NCAA Regional
1998	Central Michigan	31–23–1	22–5	1st (West)
1999	Central Michigan	41–18	20–8	2nd (West)	NCAA Regional
2000	Central Michigan	33–13	15–5	2nd (West)	NCAA Regional
2001	Central Michigan	37–20	20–4	1st (West)	NCAA Regional
2002	Central Michigan	39–16	23–1	1st (West)	NCAA Regional
2003	Central Michigan	26–18	14–7	2nd (West)
2004	Central Michigan	32–19	21–3	1st (West)	NCAA Regional
2005	Central Michigan	29–16	16–6	1st (West)
2006	Central Michigan	22–27	13–7	2nd (West)
2007	Central Michigan	27–20	11–7	2nd (West)
2008	Central Michigan	25–20	14–7	1st (West)
2009	Central Michigan	12–31	4–17	6th (West)
2010	Central Michigan	27–19	12–8	2nd (West)
2011	Central Michigan	32–21	13–9	5th (West)
2012	Central Michigan	30–27	11–10	3rd (West)
2013	Central Michigan	33–20	15–7	2nd (West)	NCAA Regional
2014	Central Michigan	34–22	10–10	2nd (West)
2015	Central Michigan	27–23	12–8	2nd (West)
2016	Central Michigan	24–27–1	11–11–1	4th (West)
2017	Central Michigan	37–15	18–5	1st (West)
2018	Central Michigan	22–26	12–11	4th (West)
2019	Central Michigan	18–22–1	8–5–1
Central Michigan:		1246–780–6 (.615)	551–275–2 (.667)
Total:		1246–780–6 (.615)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

See also

• List of college softball coaches with 1,000 wins

References

1. "'Simply said, a legend': CMU softball coach Margo Jonker quietly retires after 40 years". Detroit News.
2. "Margo Jonker". Central Michigan Chippewas. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
3. "Alumni-Margo Jonker". GVSU Alumni Relations. Archived from the original on 20 January 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2010.