Editing Geoff Jenkins (section)

==Amateur career==
Jenkins attended [[Cordova High School (California)|Cordova High School]] in [[Rancho Cordova]], [[California]], where he played [[American football|football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]]. He was selected for the all-state baseball team as a junior and senior before graduating in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/team/player%20career.jsp?player%20id=132961|url-status=dead|title=Player Information: Geoff Jenkins #5 Biography and Statistics|publisher=Major League Baseball|website=[[MLB.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040904202102/http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=132961|archive-date=September 4, 2004|access-date=September 4, 2004}}</ref>

Jenkins enrolled at the [[University of Southern California]] (USC) and played [[college baseball]] for the [[USC Trojans baseball|USC Trojans]] from 1993 to 1995. In his final season, he [[batting average (baseball)|batted]] .399 with 78 [[runs batted in]] (RBIs) and a .748 [[slugging percentage]] in 70 games, also scoring 75 [[Run (baseball)|runs]] to tie the school record held by [[Rich Dauer]] and [[Mark McGwire]]; his 23 home runs and 193 [[total bases]] ranked second in school history behind McGwire's 1984 totals of 32 and 216. He led the Trojans to the [[College World Series]], where they reached the championship game; Jenkins was named to the all-CWS team, and also earned team co-MVP honors and was named a consensus All-American. In 1996, the year of the CWS' 50th tournament, Jenkins was named to the all-decade team for the 1990s. He finished his USC career with a .369 batting average, 45 home runs (second only to McGwire's 54), a .652 slugging percentage, 180 runs, and school records for runs batted in (175) and total bases (444).{{cn|date=October 2023}}