Tim Jepson

Classroom

Jepson is a sociology major with a certificate in markets and management and holds a 3.37 cumulative GPA. In 2006 Jepson was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District second team member, while earned All-ACC Academic honors. In 2004 and 2005 he was an All-ACC Academic choice. Jepson has also been named to the ACC Honor Roll in all three of his years at Duke.

Character

His character is evident by the many hours he has dedicated to helping underpriviledged individuals. In the future, he hopes to someday work in a hospital working with terminally ill children and their families. He also is interested in helping run an orphanage in a third world country.

Community

Jepson works with the Southern California Seahorses’ soccer team in the summers, which is a part of Missionary Athletes International in Orange County, Calif. On that team he works with teammates much older than himself and assists in the organization and production of year-round soccer camps, clinics and Bible studies all over Southern California. As part of the Athletes in Action leadership team at Duke he acts as the Emcee. He contacts speakers and meets coordinates weekly meetings and Bible studies for varsity athletes, and also facilitates and directs meetings. Jepson works with the Blue Devil Outreach Network where he serves as a community service liaison for Duke men’s soccer team. Jepson convenes and communicates with administrators and other team representatives to initiate and follow through on community service projects for Duke’s athletic teams. He has helped assist at soup kitchens, built homes for Habitat for Humanity and also packed food for starving children in Africa. He also assists with Duke University soccer camps. At the camps he coaches and motivates kids ages 5-14 to improve and develop fundamental skills to gain a better understanding of the sport. Jepson has participated in many missions trips. With the Southern California Seahorses he took a summer tour in Guadalajara, Mexico. As a member of the Summit Church, Jepson took a spring break missions’ trip to New Orleans, La. Last year he went to New York with the same group to help plant one of their sister churches. “Helping our Homies,” which is a mission that created the idea of buying food, preparing meals and distributing them to the homeless in downtown Los Angeles is yet another program Jepson is involved in. Through that initiative, he contacts individuals and organizes teams to disperse meals during the summer and winter.

Competition

Jepson has led Duke to the Final Four in 2004, the ACC Tournament Championship in 2005 and 2006, and the ACC Regular Season Championship in 2006. Duke has also been ranked No. 1 in 2004, 2006 and 2007. Jepson started every game in his first three years at Duke. He is captain of the team in 2007 for the second straight season. In 2006 Jepson led the team in minutes logged with 1,977 and won the Iron Duke Award for the second time. He scored his first two career goals on only nine shots, which came against No. 3 Virginia and N.C. State. He dished out the game-winning assist in an NCAA tournament game against Brown and was named to the ACC All-Tournament team. Jepson was also Duke’s defensive player of the year in 2006. In 2005 he finished second on the team in minutes played, with 1,821. His two assists on the season both came in a 2-0 victory over Western Illinois. He directed the Duke defense that only allowed 24 goals in 20 games with eight shutouts. In his freshman season, he was one of only four players to start all 24 games. He earned the team’s Iron Duke Award for the most minutes played. He showed tremendous poise and confidence in the back, directing a defense that held the opposition to only 0.92 goals per game.