Cornell University Athletics

Jeremy Spates, a former All-American at Missouri, enters his fifth season with the Cornell staff as an assistant focusing on the middle to lower weight classes. During his time at Cornell, Spates has helped Big Red wrestlers earn six individual National Championships, 18 All-America honors, 15 EIWA titles, and 22 first-team All-Ivy honors.

Spates served as an assistant coach at Oklahoma for five seasons prior to joining the Big Red. In 2008-09, his last year with the Sooners, Spates helped lead Oklahoma to a 16-4 dual record. The Sooners crowned two Big 12 champions and qualified eight wrestlers for the NCAA tournament. In his five seasons, Spates helped Oklahoma notch two top-three team finishes at the NCAAs. At the 2004 national tournament, Oklahoma crowned a 141 pound champion, Teyon Ware, and produced four All-Americans. The Sooners followed with five All-Americans in 2005. Spates served as an interim assistant coach for the 2004-05 season, and he was promoted to assistant coach prior to the 2005-06 campaign.

A three-time NCAA qualifier, Spates finished his wrestling career at Missouri with a 106-38 record and was only the 10th Tiger to reach 100 wins. Spates rounded out his senior campaign by placing fifth at the NCAA tournament to earn All-America honors. The first Missouri three-time captain, he was invited to compete at the 2004 National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Star Classic, where he defeated Cornell All-American Dustin Manotti.

A 1999 Norman HS graduate, Spates was a high school All-American and a three-time junior All-American. He earned an Oklahoma state championship.

Spates is the son of Jack Spates, who coached the Big Red from 1988-93. Jack Spates had a 74-14-1 record as the fifth head coach of Cornell and tops all wrestling coaches with a .837 winning percentage. He led the Big Red to five Ivy titles and placed first at the EIWA tournament his last two seasons. The Big Red’s 10th-place mark at the NCAA tournament in 1993 was Cornell’s best in 32 years. Jack Spates retired from Oklahoma after 16 seasons as the head coach. He has led the Sooners to top-four placings nationally in six of his last 10 seasons.

Spates and his wife, Laura, reside in Dryden.

*Updated June 17, 2013