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Percy Carr, Head Coach

          Percy Carr is entering his 31st year as Head Basketball Coach for the Jaguars. With 705 wins Coach Carr is the winningest coach in California community college history. In Coach Carr's tenure, the Jaguars have gone to the playoffs 29 of 32 years. He has guided 8 different Jaguar teams to the State Championships. In 1989, Percy Carr was honored as Santa Clara County Coach of the Year. In 1994, Percy was honored as the Sacramento Kings Northern California Coach of the Year. In March 1998, he was inducted to the California Community College Basketball Coaches Association's Hall of Fame and was ranked 6th JC coach in the USA by Basketball Times, August 1998. And in September 2000, Coach Carr was honored by the 100 Black Men of the Silicon Valley Organization as the Educator of the Year.

Percy Carr has been involved in coaching California basketball for more than 31 years. After graduating from Fresno State with Bachelor and Master Degrees in Physical Education, Coach Carr began his teaching and coaching career at his alma mater Tulare High School. Coach Carr soon moved to Edison High School where as head coach his teams compiled a 88-22 record including 2 championships. Because of Edison's great success and Coach Carr's commitment to the community, Percy Carr was honored as Fresno Coach of the Year.

     After his years at Edison, Coach Carr accepted a position at Stanford, the Cardinal defeated both USC and eventual NCAA Champion UCLA on the same weekend; a feat not accomplished in more than ten years by any Pac-10 team. With his success at Stanford and Edison High School, Coach Carr accepted the head basketball coaching position at San Jose City College.
With 705 wins and eighteen 20+ win seasons (including 32 wins in 1996-97 & 2000-01, 31 wins in 1997-98, and 30 wins in 1993-94), Coach Carr is one of the most respected coaches in the country. Coach Carr's record for wins is notable, but his dedication to the students and to the college is equally outstanding. Coach Carr is the architect of the Creative Athlete Retention Response (CARR) program offered at San Jose City College which offers athletic/academic advising to San Jose City College's athletes. The program is the only one of its kind for athletes involved in sports at community colleges in California.

Jay Sawyer, Assistant Coach

      Jay Sawyer is entering his 4th year as an assistant coach at San Jose City College. Coach Sawyer graduated from Yerba Buena High School in San Jose and played for Coach Carr from 1988-1990. After SJCC, Coach Sawyer earned a scholarship to attend Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. While at Fort Hays, Jay earned his Bachelor's Degree in Business Communications. Over the last 10 years, Jay has been in Sales in the field of Technology.
Coach Sawyer was hired to assist Coach Carr with the all facets of the SJCC basketball program. Scouting, recruiting and player development are only some of the duties that he will perform.

Brad Stever, Assistant Coach

       Brad is entering his 8 th year as Assistant Basketball Coach here at San Jose City College. Before SJCC, he was an assistant at Santa Clara High School for 3 years helping out former Jaguar player Dedrick Brooks. At Santa Clara, he was instrumental in helping those teams progress tremendously year after year.
    Coach Stever is now in charge of player development at SJCC and assists Coach Carr in many other facets of this program. He works closely with our Men's basketball program with individual workouts, tape breakdown for skill development, and runs summer basketball camps. He also works with athletes during off-season by implementing strength and conditioning programs and teaching them about healthy nutritional habits that play influential role in performing at the peak level.

Dustin Coleman, Assistant Coach