Jay Spoonhour

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Jay Spoonhour
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Eastern Illinois
Record	11-21 (.344)
Biographical details
Born	(1970-10-14) October 14, 1970 Springfield, Missouri
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	Standing	Postseason
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 Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

NCAA

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
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 Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

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 |title= (help)

External links

UTSA Roadrunners bio

Eastern Illinois Panthers men's basketball head coaches

Joseph Brown (1908–1910)
No team (1910–1911)
Charles Lantz (1911–1917)
No team (1917–1918)
Charles Lantz (1918–1935)
Winfield Angus (1935–1936)
Gilbert Carson (1936–1942)
Clayton Miller (1942–1943)
Charles Lantz (1943–1944)
James Goff (1944–1946)
Bill Healey (1946–1953)
Robert Carey (1953–1961)
Rex Darling (1961–1962)
Robert Carey (1962–1964)
Rex Darling (1964–1967)
John Caine (1967–1968)
Don Eddy (1968–1980)
Rick Samuels (1980–2005)
Mike Miller (2005–2012)
Jay Spoonhour (2012– )

Current men's basketball head coaches of the Ohio Valley Conference

Dave Loos (Austin Peay)
Rick Byrd (Belmont)
Jay Spoonhour (Eastern Illinois)
Jeff Neubauer (Eastern Kentucky)
James Green (Jacksonville State)
Sean Woods (Morehead State)
Steve Prohm (Murray State)
Lennox Forrester (SIU Edwardsville)
Dickey Nutt (Southeast Missouri State)
Jason James (Tennessee–Martin)
Travis Williams (Tennessee State)
Steve Payne (Tennessee Tech)

Persondata
Name	Spoonhour, Jay
Alternative names
Short description	American basketball player-coach
Date of birth	October 14, 1970
Place of birth	Springfield, Missouri
Date of death
Place of death

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