Longtime Old Dominion head coach Jeff Jones retiring after health issues Boston 25 News [Video]

Old Dominion coach Jeff Jones is calling it a career.

Jones, who stepped away multiple times due to health issues this season, is retiring from the sport after 32 seasons as a head coach, the school announced on Monday.

Jones first experienced a heart attack in December ahead of Old Dominion’s appearance at the Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii. He then announced last month that he needed to step away for the rest of the 2023-24 season to undergo prostate cancer treatments. The 63-year-old was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2015, and was again in 2018. Assistant coach Kieran Donohue has led the program on an interim basis in Jones’ absence.

Jones first took over at Old Dominion in 2013. He’s led the Monarchs for the past 11 seasons and compiled a 203-131 record there. They won both a regular season and conference tournament title in 2019, too, which resulted in their only NCAA tournament …