Jason Coles

{{short description|British ice hockey player and coach}}

{{Use British English|date=December 2015}}

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{{Infobox ice hockey player

| name = Jason Coles

| image =

| caption =

| image_size = 230px

| played_for = CoHL
St. Thomas Wildcats
BISL
Bracknell Bees
CHL
Fayetteville Force
ECHL
Pee Dee Pride
Birmingham Bulls

| position = Defence

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lb = 200

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1973|9|16}}

| birth_place = Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England

| draft = Undrafted

| career_start = 1993

| career_end = 2012

}}

Jason Coles (born 16 September 1973) is a British retired professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently the head of the Wightlink Tigers in the English National Ice Hockey League (NIHL).

Coles played four seasons (1990 - 1994) of major junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), scoring 13 goals and 20 assists for 24 points, while earning 310 penalty minutes, in 186 games played.

He began his professional career during the 1993-94 season with the St. Thomas Wildcats of the Colonial Hockey League. He went on to play 17 seasons, predominantly with the Wightlink Raiders of the English Premier Ice Hockey League, but also with the Bracknell Bees of the British Ice Hockey Superleague, and in the ECHL with the Pee Dee Pride and Birmingham Bulls, before retiring as a player following the 2011-12 season.{{Cite web|url=http://prohockeynews.com/double-retirement-for-tigers/|title=Double retirement for Tigers | Pro Hockey News|date=25 March 2012}}

With the 2012-13 season, Coles took on the position of head coach with the Wightlink Tigers of the English National Ice Hockey League after being a player-coach with the team the previous year.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wightlinktigers.org/News.html |title=News |access-date=24 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191234/http://www.wightlinktigers.org/News.html |archive-date=29 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}