VC football assistant coach Ron Jenkins was featured in the Spring 2015 edition of the Fresno State Magazine. Jenkins, who is a volunteer coach for the Pirates who will begin his third year as a Player Development/Wide Receiver coach with the Pirates in 2015, works as a Youth Correctional Officer at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility. He was recruited to Fresno State by current VC head coach Steve Mooshagian.
Ron Jenkins arrived on the Fresno State campus from Los Angeles in 1986 knowing he had an opportunity to change his life. His mother died when he was 2 years old. Two of his brothers had been murdered — one stabbed and the other shot. He met his biological father at 11 years old, but the relationship never blossomed.
Jenkins spent most of his childhood in foster care and at age 13 had thoughts of ending his life. "I look back on it today, and I had one of the toughest childhoods one could imagine," Jenkins says. "I broke down and asked God to save me and help me get out of the situation I was living in."
Shortly after, Jenkins threw a ball through a neighborhood man's window. The man, Harrel Burnett, asked him to work off the damage. From there, Jenkins says, he followed Burnett's lead and learned responsibility.
Jenkins was a talented athlete and leveraged his football ability to go from Manuel Arts High School to East Los Angeles City College. That's when Steve Mooshagian, an assistant coach at Fresno State at the time, started recruiting Jenkins.
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