Zeke Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Zeke Jones

Olympic wrestler

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1966

Place of Birth: Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States

Profession: amateur wrestler

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Zeke Jones

  • Larry Lee "Zeke" Jones (born December 2, 1966) is an American wrestler who won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, a world championship in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1991, and was the former freestyle head coach at USA Wrestling.
  • He is currently the head coach of the Arizona State University Wrestling team as of April, 2014.
  • He was a six-time national freestyle champion, four-time World Cup champion, Pan American Games champion, and received the "World's Most Technical Wrestler Award" awarded by FILA, the international governing body for the sport.
  • In college, he was a three-time All-American for Arizona State University and competed on the 1988 NCAA Championship team, coached by famed Bobby Douglas.
  • After college, he wrestled on two world championships teams with the United States wrestling team.
  • In 2005, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He was the head coach of the 2012 US Olympic freestyle wrestling team, Jones coached at the collegiate division I level for 18 years.
  • His first college coaching position was an assistant coach at Bloomsburg University, Arizona State University and West Virginia University before becoming the head coach at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.
  • In April 2014 he was hired as the head coach for the Arizona State Sun Devils.
  • In 2008, he accepted the head coach position for the United States freestyle wrestling team with USA Wrestling at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • In August 2013, Jones helped coach Kyle Snyder to a junior world championship in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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