Jon Jaques

Jonathan David Jaques (born January 2, 1988) is an American men's basketball coach who is currently the head coach for Cornell University. He played college basketball for Cornell, and played professionally for Ironi Ashkelon in Israel.

Early and personal life
Jaques's was born and raised in Brentwood in Los Angeles, California. 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. 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.

College basketball career
He attended Cornell University (Biology; '10), 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 (7th-most in the Ivy League), and had 42 three-point field goals (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 in Ligat HaAl, the top division of Israeli basketball.

Coaching career
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 was assistant men's basketball coach for Cornell University from 2013-2024 before becoming head coach in 2024.