Store Date with Spring MVC and MySQL

I have the attribute type Date in a class and when I want to register it in MySQL with type date , I get an error and it may be due to the format of the date, but I do not know what to do.

Class attribute:

  

private Date fecha;

Method in the controller:

  

this.jdbcTemplate.update ( "insert into usuarios (nombre,correo,fecha ) values (?,?,?)", u.getNombre(),u.getCorreo(),u.getFecha() );