Jeff Bailey is in his second season as USA’s equipment operations manager. In his role, Bailey is responsible for fitting and ordering all equipment — including practice and game uniforms, helmets, shoulder pads, shoes and cleats — for the football program. He is also in charge of maintaining inventory levels and projecting future equipment needs, and he oversees the program’s staff of student managers.
Bailey assists in coordinating the Jaguars’ practice and game day itinerary as well.
He came to the school after serving as the equipment manager and director of football operations at Prattville High School, where he worked for Jaguar assistant coach Bill Clark, since August 2003. At PHS, his responsibilities included ordering, organizing and distributing equipment for more than 200 student-athletes on the varsity, junior varsity an freshman teams, maintaining facilities and grounds, supervising the Lions’ managers and ball boys, organizing travel arrangements and public events for fund raising.
Bailey was the recreation coordinator for Prattville Parks and Recreation for six years prior to working at PHS, where he assisted in managing the city’s recreation program, and he also served as equipment manager for the Montgomery Biscuits of Minor League Baseball’s Double A Southern League in the summer of 2005.
A baseball player at Huntingdon (Ala.) College in 1983, Bailey and his wife Sheila have five children: two daughters, Lauren McKerley (28) and Rachael Johnson (26), and three sons, Justin (23), Jarrett (21) — a pitcher for the Jaguar baseball team — and Evan Grace (17).
The Bailey File
Born: July 24, 1962, in Montgomery, Ala.
Administrative Experience:
Prattville [Ala.] HS — equipment manager/director of football operations, 2003-08
Montgomery Biscuits — equipment manager, 2005
South Alabama — equipment operations manager, 2009-
Family: Wife, Sheila; Two daughters, Lauren McKerley (28) and Rachael Johnson (26), three sons, Justin (23), Jarrett (21) and Evan Grace (17)
