JackRay

Jack Ray is in his first season as an assistant special teams coach at Kentucky. He will assist special teams coordinator Jay Boulware.

Ray came to Lexington in the summer of 2025 after serving as the co-special teams coordinator at Hawai’i the past two seasons. Prior to that, he was a graduate assistant at Washington State, a special teams analyst at Nevada and a student assistant at Arkansas Pine Bluff.

While on staff at Nevada, Ray helped the Wolfpack to three bowl games in as many seasons and served as the team’s interim special teams coordinator for the Quick Lane Bowl at the end of the 2021 campaign. He played a key role in film breakdown, scouting reports and practice and game evaluations during his time there.

Ray, a native of Discovery Bay, California, was a two-year starter at long snapper for Arkansas Pine Bluff from 2017-18. Before that, he was a linebacker and long snapper at Sierra College in Rocklin, California in 2016.

He is married to Jordyn Ray of Oakley, California.

Jack Ray’s Coaching Career