Jon Jaques
Jonathan David Jaques is an American-Israeli assistant men's basketball coach for Cornell University. He played college basketball for Cornell University, and played professionally for Ironi Ashkelon in Israel.Jaques's was born and raised in Brentwood in Los Angeles, California, and is Jewish. His father is Doug Jaques, and his sister Clara was starting goalkeeper for the Washington University soccer team in St. Louis, where she was the all-time shutouts leader with 12 in one game. He attended Hebrew school, and had a bar-mitzvah. For high school, he attended and played basketball at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles.
He is interested in a career in sports journalism. He has written a college basketball blog called "Blue Chips" for Slam Magazine, and written for The Quad, The New York Times' online college sports blog.He attended Cornell University, and played basketball for four seasons for Cornell's Big Red men's basketball team, three of them with Ivy League Championship teams. In 2009-10 he was team tri-captain and played in 31 games, and had 42 three-point field goals as he led the league in three-point percentage at 47.2%, and also won the Men's Basketball Rebounder Award.After graduating from Cornell, Jaques made aliyah by moving to Israel, and signed with Ironi Ashkelon in Ligat HaAl, the top division of Israeli basketball.
For 2011-12, he was an assistant basketball coach of the Ducks at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. For the 2012-13 season he joined the Columbia University Lions men's basketball team as a graduate manager while attending the Mailman School of Public Health.
He is assistant men's basketball coach for Cornell University.
