Jay Kam (Seattle Pacific '00) who developed Century College into a junior-college volleyball power over the past decade, was named as the 12th head coach in the history of the Augsburg University volleyball program in May 2025.
Kam, who started the volleyball program at Century, an NJCAA program in White Bear Lake, Minn., in 2018, has compiled a 96-44 record in the team's five seasons as a varsity program (2019, 2021-24). The Wood Ducks have reached the NJCAA Division III National Championships each of the last three seasons, finishing fourth nationally in 2022, as national runner-up in 2023 and fourth nationally in 2024. Century athletes have earned five NJCAA All-American honors in the past three seasons.
The Wood Ducks went 28-6 in 2024, finishing second in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference South Division standings with a 10-2 record, finished second in the MCAC South in 2023 with a 29-5 overall (13-2 MCAC) record, and won the MCAC South title in 2022 with a 24-7 overall (14-2 MCAC) record. Century won the NJCAA Region 13A championship, along with the North Plains A District championship, in both 2022 and 2023.
Kam was named NJCAA Region 13A and North Plains A District Coach of the Year in both 2022 and 2023, and MCAC South Division Coach of the Year in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
In addition to his coaching at Century, Kam has served as a head coach and age division lead for the Kokoro Volleyball club program in Lake Elmo, Minn., since 2021. In 2024, Kam also served as U15 head coach for the North Country Region High Performance Regional Development Program.
Kam received his bachelor's degree in exercise science from Seattle Pacific University (Wash.) in 2000, and his master's degree in physical education from Minnesota State University Mankato in 2013. He also served on the exercise science faculty at Normandale Community College (Minn.) from 2013 to 2018.
