She played professional softball in the National Pro Fastpitch from 2007 to 2009 with the defunct Washington Glory, winning a title and being named Player of The Year in 2007, and the USSSA Pride.
As well, she also set new Wildcat records in home runs, triples, doubles, slugging percentage and average, the latter of which was another career best and led the NCAA in 2003.
[4] In 2005, Jackson once again captured identical conference honors from the previous year but also was named a National Fastpitch Coaches' Association Second Team All-American.
[3] Jackson would lead the Wildcats to a historic run in the NCAA softball tournament by also becoming the first, and so far only, HBCU team to advance to a Super Regional.
[7] Excluding the average and walks, she too held every other MEAC record and still does for triples and hits, but stands top-5 for all other conference career statistics.
Her 24 career best home run total (led the NCAA) was also a conference best, along with the slugging, both now rank top-5 all-time for an ACC season.
[3][11] Finally, her career best stolen bases also led the ACC and her average, RBIs and hits are top-10 Maryland Terrapins records.
[13] The next month on April 11 vs. the Georgetown Hoyas in another doubleheader, Jackson hit a walk-off home run against Jennifer Connelly in game one for the 50th in her career.
With a Masters of Education from The University of Maryland, Jackson found work as a high school teacher and softball coach.
She would coach the 2015 MEAC Rookie of The Year Vanessa Washington as well as two-time first-team players Nicole Gazzola and Jasmine Melgoza.