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Jeff Juron is set to begin his 10th season as Suffolk men’s head basketball coach in 2024-25, while also serving as the department’s Assistant Director of Athletics. 

Over nine seasons at Suffolk, Juron has helped Suffolk to new heights highlighted by nine consecutive winning seasons and a 115-103 (.528) record in that span.

Juron led the Rams’ transition to the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) in 2021-22. Over four seasons versus CCC competition, Suffolk has achieved a 40-28 (.588) overall mark, including a trip to the 2023-24 CCC Championship game. Prior to the CCC, Juron led Suffolk to the top of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC). In 2018-19, Suffolk finished as GNAC Regular-Season Champions and Juron was named GNAC Coach of the Year.  

Juron’s players have garnered 12 all-league recognitions in nine seasons including four first-team selections – Thomas Duffy (2019), Nate Hale (2022) and Keenan Robertson (2023 & 2024). In 2020-21, Hale became the first player in program history to receive D3hoops.com All-Region recognition with a spot on the second-team. Juron has coached seven players – Caleb Unni ‘16, Thomas Duffy '20, Mike Hagopian ’19, Nate Hale ’21, Brendan Mulson ’21, Evan Cook ’24 (Graduate) and Keenan Robertson ‘25 – who reached the 1,000 point mark. 

Juron’s teams have been consistently recognized for their classroom achievements and for their conduct. In Juron’s tenure, Suffolk has earned six NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for maintaining a team GPA of 3.0 or better. In addition, 16 Rams have combined for 23 NABC Honors Court Awards, granted to upperclassmen with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher. 

In 2019-20, Juron and the Men’s Basketball program received the Sam Schoenfeld Sportsmanship Award, presented by the Collegiate Basketball Officials Association (CBOA) to the college or university which, in the judgement of the CBOA membership exemplifies the “highest degree of sportsmanship character and ethics among their players, coaches and spectators.”

Juron, an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Rochester who made three appearances in the NCAA Division III National Tournament and was a NCAA national runner-up as a player, was named Suffolk University’s fifth head coach of men’s basketball prior to tip-off of the 2015-16 season.

A six-year coaching veteran, Suffolk was Juron’s first head coaching job. He came to Boston after spending five seasons at Rochester as an assistant coach. During that span, he helped the Yellow Jackets to an 81-49 (.623) overall record, two University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships and two NCAA appearances including a Sweet Sixteen run in 2010-11. That same season, Juron and his colleagues were honored as the UAA Coaching Staff of the Year and the East Region Coaching Staff of the Year. One of Rochester’s most outstanding campaign’s with Juron on the bench was the 2012-13 slate where the Yellow Jackets posted a 22-5 overall ledger, earned a midseason No. 1 ranking from D3Hoops.com and put together the second longest winning streak in the program’s history, which spans more than 100 years.  

With a variety of responsibilities in Upstate New York, which included scouting and recruiting efforts, Juron took a passion to player development. During his five-year stint at Rochester he helped develop John DiBartolomeo, the 2013 D3Hoops.com National Player of the Year, 2013 NABC First-Team All-American, two-time UAA Player of the Year and 2013 Jostens Trophy Nominee, as well as Nate Vernon a four-time All-UAA Performer and 1,000-point scorer and three additional all-conference selections.

In addition to his success with the Yellow Jackets, Juron spent a season as an assistant coach for Skidmore College during the 2009-10 campaign where he helped the Thoroughbreds to the most wins, best record and highest Liberty League finish in the history of the program to date. At Skidmore, he was actively involved in recruiting, practice planning and execution, while working with players both individually and on a team basis, using film sessions and on-court instructions to prepare for competition.

As a four-year starting point guard at Rochester from 2004-2008, he helped the Yellow Jackets to the Division III Big Dance three times, including a spot in the 2005 national championship game. With Juron in the starting lineup, Rochester captured the 2005 UAA title and won two JPMorgan Chase Tournament titles. He is a four-time UAA honorable mention selection.

Upon his return to Rochester to coach, Juron continued his education and received his Masters of Science degree in Business Administration from the Simon School of Business in May 2014. 

Juron took his talents oversees after graduating Rochester in 2008 with dual bachelor’s degrees in political science and English. When he was not acting as the floor general for the BC Vlijmscherp in Den Bosch, Netherlands, he participated in instructional clinics for the community.

For his efforts on the sidelines as a coach, as well as on the court as a player at Rochester, Juron was enshrined into the Upstate New York Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020. A year prior, he was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at Burnt Hils-Ballston Lake High School in New York. 

Juron and his wife, Ashley reside in Norwell with their two sons, Jack and Jaden.