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| Full name | Larry Lee Jones | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 2, 1966 (1966-12-02) (age 58) Ypsilanti, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Freestyle andFolkstyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Arizona State | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Bobby Douglas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Larry Lee "Zeke" Jones (born December 2, 1966) is an American wrestler and coach. He won a silver medal at the1992 Summer Olympics, a World Championship in 1991, and was the former freestyle head coach ofUSA Wrestling. He is currently the head coach of the Arizona State University Wrestling team.
Jones was born inYpsilanti, Michigan. He started wrestling under the influence of his brother Johnnie, a two-time junior college national champion for Schoolcraft Junior College and later a wrestler on Iowa State's national runner-up team in 1976. He was citywide champion atScarlett Junior High School, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was coached by James Bryant.
In high school, he amassed a 111-6 record, finishing 2nd and 1st in the Michigan High School State Championships in 1984 and 1985 competing forHuron High School inAnn Arbor, Michigan. In high school he was coached by Tom Davids and Ernie Gillum. He was a three-time High School All-American at the Junior National Championships and was named Dream Team All-American selection byWrestling USA Magazine in 1985. Jones was named to the Huron High School Hall of Fame in 2002.
Jones signed withBobby Douglas andArizona State Sun Devils in 1985. He compiled a 139-21 record and garnering threeAll-American honors at theNCAA's, threePac-10 championships, Midlands Title, and was anNCAA finalist his senior year.
Jones was an Olympic silver medalist, 1991 World Champion, six-time U.S. 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 during his career. In 2005, he was inducted into theNational Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.
Jones served as the head coach of the 2012 US Olympic freestyle wrestling team. His first college coaching position was an assistant coach atBloomsburg University,Arizona State University andWest Virginia University before becoming the head coach at theUniversity 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 theOlympic Training Center inColorado Springs, Colorado.[1]
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