Jones spent the last 13 years as the head coach of the Golden Knights
Clarkson head coach Casey Jones is heading back to Cornell as their associate head coach, the team announced Thursday.
Following one season as associate head coach, Jones will take over as head coach of the Big Red in 2025-26 once Mike Schafer retires.
Jones, who has spent the last 13 years as head coach of the Golden Knights, has close ties to Cornell as he played his NCAA hockey and got his coaching start there.
A product of Temiscaming, Que., Jones was drafted by the Boston Bruins in the tenth round of the 1987 NHL Draft but never played pro hockey after his four-year NCAA career at Cornell.
Following the end of his playing career in 1990, Jones got into coaching not long after as he joined the Big Red as an assistant coach prior to the 1991-92 season.
Serving in that position for two years, Jones would move on to Clarkson in 1993 where he would serve in the same role until 1995. From 1995-2008, Jones would work as an assistant coach and associate head coach at Ohio State.
Since then, Jones has worked with Cornell again as an associate head coach (2008-11) and with Clarkson as their head coach (2011-24).
As Jones heads back to Cornell for his third go around as a coach, Clarkson's Athletic Director Laurel Kane spoke about Jones' time with the program.
"I would personally like to thank Casey for all that he has done for the men's hockey program and Clarkson University," Kane said in the team's official statement. "He has led this program with the utmost integrity and has always had the best interest of the program at heart."
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