Coach Jake has been coaching Kindergartners through High-School seniors for 12 years. He began coaching 15U, 16U, and 17U for the Iowa Mavericks and Iowa Barnstormers AAU programs while in college, and transitioned to youth (K-8) in Portland.

He has been a Director of Youth Basketball in Portland for high schoolers, middle schoolers, and K-5 the Portland metro for the past 6 years.

He partnered in starting DCBA - a youth basketball program in Iowa in the county he grew up in & moved back to Portland.