Jonathan David Jaques (born January 2, 1988) is an American men's basketball coach who is currently the head coach for
Cornell University
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. He played college
basketball
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Harvard-Westlake School
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Cornell University
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Ivy League
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three-point field goal
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s (10th in the league) as he led the league in three-point percentage at 47.2%, and also won the Men's Basketball Rebounder Award.
Professional basketball career
After graduating from Cornell, Jaques signed with
Ironi Ashkelon
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Coaching career
For 2011-12, he was an assistant basketball coach of the Ducks at
Stevens Institute of Technology
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in
Hoboken, New Jersey
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. 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 was assistant men's basketball coach for
Cornell University
Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...