2023 • REDSHIRT JUNIOR SEASON
Awards: Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Season: Did not see any game action...Named the coaching staff's Developmental Squad Offensive Player of the Week (Illinois, 9/16).
2022 • SOPHOMORE SEASON
Redshirt season.
2020-21 • COLGATE UNIVERSITY
Season: 2021:Appeared in all 11 games, serving primarily as a return specialist...Logged 20 kickoff returns for 278 yards (19.8) and six punt returns for 23 yards (3.8)...Added three receptions for 14 yards. 2020: Appeared in two games.
2021: at Boston College (9/24): Had two kick returns for 36 yards. Stony Brook (9/11): Returned four kicks for 97 yards with a long return of 29...Added a 2-yard rush. William & Mary (9/18): Logged two kick returns for 49 yards. at Brown (10/9): Returned three kicks for 52 yards...Recorded a 20-yard punt return. at Cornell (10/15): Tallied 44 kick return yards on a pair of returns. Bucknell (10/30): Recorded a 25-yard kick return...Added a reception. Fordham (11/20): Tallied a 6-yard catch...Had a 21-yard kick return.
HIGH SCHOOL
Lettered for head coach Michael Murphy at The Haverford School...Was a second-team all-state selection and an All-Inter-AC first team honoree during his senior season...Registered 86 catches for 945 yards and 17 total yards during his career at Haverford...Posted 48 receptions for 658 yards and eight total touchdowns in just six games as a senior...Also lettered in lacrosse and played basketball at The Haverford School...Was a two-year lacrosse team captain.
PERSONAL
Full name is Jake Nipon Spencer...Son of Craig and Barbara Spencer....Has two sisters, Taylor and Arielle Spencer, and a brother, Max Spencer...Father, Craig, played tennis at the University of Florida...Grandfather played football and boxed at Temple...Hobbies include hanging out with friends and family, watching movies, playing other sports and playing video games...Majoring in communication arts and sciences.