A fixture on the Pacific campus and in Boxer athletics for nearly three decades, Jeff Grundon is in his eighth season as a volunteer assistant coach with the Pacific men's soccer program. Grundon's duties involve providing motivational support for the Boxers and assisting in the team's recruiting efforts and strength and conditioning.
Grundon has been a fixture within Boxer athletics since he came to Pacific in 1975 as a football player. Since his playing days, Grundon served in every possible assistant coaching post with the Boxer football squad until the program was eliminated after the 1991 season. Many of his players earned both all-conference and all-American distinction.
In his full-time position as Senior Associate Director of Admissions & Athletic Liaison, Grundon serves as the main contact person for prospective students from Hawaii and northwest Oregon. Grundon also serves as the liaison between the athletic department and admissions, and assists coaches in developing plans to recruit the finest student-athletes to Forest Grove.
In 2008, Grundon was inducted into the Pacific University Athletic Hall of Fame for his meritorious service to the Boxers' athletics program.
Grundon has served in varying roles in the admissions department since 1983 where he has been a very well received ambassador for the University. In a poll conducted during a January 2003 episode of Pacific's "Boxer Backtalk" radio show, one in two students and alums in the room had been recruited to Pacific by Grundon.
A native of Hawaii, Grundon serves as one of five advisors for Pacific's Hawaii Club, Na Haumana O'Hawai'i. The University's Alumni Association bestowed upon Grundon it's Outstanding Alumni Service Award in 1998 and was presented with Pacific's prestigious University Service Award in 2006.
A 1980 graduate of Pacific with a degree in communications, Grundon has three children: Michael, Amber, a sophomore at St. Scolastica College, and Dyllun. Jeff and his wife, Mary, live in Forest Grove.
