Jay Spoonhour
Jay Spoonhour | |
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Sport(s) | Basketball |
Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Eastern Illinois |
Record | 11-21 (.344) |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Springfield, Missouri | October 14, 1970
Playing career | |
1990–1994 | Pittsburg State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1994-96 1996-99 2000 2000-01 2001-04 2004 2004-06 2006-09 2009-12 2012- |
Central Missouri St. (grad. asst.) Saint Louis (asst.) Valparaiso (asst.) Wabash Valley College UNLV (asst.) UNLV (interim HC) Missouri (asst.) UTSA (asst.) Moberly Area CC Eastern Illinois |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | NCAA: 17-25 (.405) |
Jay Spoonhour (January 20, 1971) is the current head men's basketball coach at Eastern Illinois University. He was announced as the Panthers' head coach on April 6, 2012. Previously, he served as the head coach at Moberly Area Community College in Missouri. Spoonhour has also held several assistant jobs, including at Saint Louis, UNLV, Missouri and Texas-San Antonio. He served as the interim head coach of the UNLV Runnin' Rebels in 2004 after his father, Charlie Spoonhour, resigned mid-season.
Career
Spoonhour started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Central Missouri State (1994–96). This was followed by assistant coaching jobs at Saint Louis (1996–99) and Valparaiso (2000) before getting his first head coaching job at Wabash Valley College. In his one and only season at Wabash, he led the team to a 36-1 overall record and won the 2001 NJCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. He was named the National Junior College Coach of the Year by both the NABC and NJCAA.
Following the national title season, Spoonhour joined his father's staff at UNLV as an assistant. He spent three seasons in Las Vegas and in 2004, he took over as the interim head coach after his father resigned midseason. In the 10 games that the younger Spoonhour coached, the Runnin' Rebels went 6-4, including an appearance in the Mountain West Conference title game and a first round loss in the 2004 NIT.
He then went on to spend two seasons as an assistant at Missouri and three as an assistant at Texas-San Antonio before being hired as the head coach of Moberly Area Community College in Moberly, Missouri. In his three years there (2009–12), Spoonhour had a record of 63-27.
On April 6, 2012, Spoonhour was hired as the next head men's basketball coach at Eastern Illinois University of the Ohio Valley Conference. Spoonhour was chosen over a list of final candidates that also included Vanderbilt assistant David Cason, Oregon assistant Brian Fish, Nevada assistant Doug Novsek and Xavier assistant Kareem Richardson.[1]
In his first season as head coach, the Panthers finished 11-21 overall, but managed to make the conference tournament for the first time since the 2009-10 season. The Panthers were eliminated in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament by Southeast Missouri State.
Head coaching record
NJCAA
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Wabash Valley College () (2000–2001) | |||||||||
2000–2001 | Wabash Valley | 36–1 | 1st | NJCAA National Champions | |||||
Wabash Valley: | 36–1 (.973) | ||||||||
Moberly Area CC () (2009–2012) | |||||||||
2009–2010 | Moberly Area CC | 25–6 | |||||||
2010–2011 | Moberly Area CC | 17–13 | |||||||
2011–2012 | Moberly Area CC | 21–8 | |||||||
Moberly Area CC: | 63–27 (.700) | ||||||||
Total: | 99–28 (.780) | ||||||||
National champion
Conference regular season champion
Conference tournament champion
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NCAA
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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UNLV (Mountain West Conference) (2004–2004) | |||||||||
2003–2004 | UNLV | 6–4 | 4–2 | 4th | |||||
UNLV: | 6–4 (.600) | 4–2 | |||||||
Eastern Illinois (Ohio Valley Conference) (2012–present) | |||||||||
2012–2013 | Eastern Illinois | 11–21 | 6–10 | 4th in OVC West | Lost in first round of OVC tournament | ||||
2013–2014 | Eastern Illinois | 9–14 | 6–5 | ||||||
Eastern Illinois: | 20–35 (.364) | 12–15 | |||||||
Total: | 26–39 (.400) | ||||||||
National champion
Conference regular season champion
Conference tournament champion
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Personal life
Jay is the son of former Missouri State, Saint Louis and UNLV head coach Charlie Spoonhour. He graduated from Glendale High School (Springfield, Missouri) in 1989 and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in physical education from Pittsburg State University. He was a four-year letter winner in basketball at Pittsburg State, earning honorable mention all-conference honors as a senior. He is married to Nicole and has three children, Gracie, Charlie and Sam.[2]
References
- ↑ Powers, Scott. "EIU hires Jay Spoonhour".
- ↑ http://www.eiupanthers.com/staff.aspx?staff=192. Missing or empty
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