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Jack Spates Bio


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Jack Spates wasn?t part of a wrestling family and got involved into the sport by accident his sophomore year in High School. Regardless he still went on to place third at high school National Championships. In College he attended Cal Poly before transferring to Slippery Rock University his sophomore year. There he continued his success and was a runner-up his junior year and dominated the season his senior year before tearing out his knee and coming down with bronchitis and ear infections. Even still he wrestled injured and sick and made it back to the NCAA tournament before being knocked out short of meeting his goal of being a national Champion.

After college Jack Spates went into sales but couldn?t stomach the company he worked for so he took a job as a coach at a seminary. Coaching was a natural talent for Jack Spates. His abilities as a coach lead him to climb the later from that lowly seminary all the way up to a Big 12 and national powerhouse of Oklahoma University. However, at the time that Coach Spates took over the Oklahoma program it was beginning to fade. Coach Spates quickly changed that and restored the program. Now expect OU to consistently place in the top 5 year in and year out.

Jack Spates influence and success as a coach extends beyond his wrestlers but to his staff. Two of the other 4 Big 12 Schools? coaches Brian Smith and Mark Manning have served as assistants to Coach Spates before taking on Head Coaching positions where they have had tremendous success.

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Jack Spates Dreaming Big And Working Hard Jack Spates Lots And Lots Going On Wrestling 411: December 2 Jack Spates If You Missed Bedlam Check This Out Central Coast Duals Spates Carrying the Weight
Oklahoma's New Facilities Oklahoma Drill, Live, and Conditioning Tour of Coach Spates Office Sooner Tradition A Rebuilding Year Monkey off His Back The Countdown Begins
Go Big or Go Home. Preview For Nationals OU Wrestling Preview Ice To An Eskimo Increasingly Restless Its our minds that give in I came, I saw, I didn?t Conquer
Tough Pill to Swallow A Moment of Inspiration Jokes on them Long Island Stories

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Salvatore Finizio   December 16, 2008 at 2:44am
hi coachSpates....you signed my carreer as wrestler and especially as coach ...hope you still remember that young italian wrestler that come to your camp at cornell...now I m proudly coaching the italian free stile senior team....thanks again...salvatore finizio ,
  
Anonymous Coward   December 13, 2008 at 5:58am
The Long Island Wrestling community is very proud of Jack's accomplishments in the sport of wrestling. He handles and carries himself very well and is a great person to be around.

I met him when he came into my wrestling room for pre-season scrimmages as a "scrawny kid" with his Hall of Fame Coach Don Jackson at Smithtown HS. We had a lot of fun!
Al Bevilacqua