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Percy Carr, Head Coach

     Percy Carr is entering his 30th year as Head Basketball Coach for the Jaguars. In Coach Carr's tenure, the Jaguars have gone to the playoffs 28 of 29 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.
Coach Carr is the winningest basketball coach in Jaguar history and is the winningest active coach in California. With 629 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. Besides Coach Carr's excellent record on the basketball floor, his C.A.R.R. Program (Creative Athletic Retention Response), which is an academic program that involves all the student athletes at San Jose City College, is on the cutting edge of athletic/academic advising. This program is the only one of its kind for community college athletes in California.

Jay Sawyer, Assistant Coach

     Jay Sawyer is entering his 1st 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 4^th year as Assistant Basketball Coach here at San Jose CityCollege. 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, assists Coach Jason Norcross with our strength program, and assists Coach Carr in helping out with our high school summer league and summer basketball camps.

Brian Hoak, Assistant Coach

     Joining the San Jose City College basketball staff as an assistant this season is Brian Hoak. Hoak spent last year as a graduate assistant at Portland State University, where he helped Head Coach Heath Schroyer turn around a struggling program that had only four wins the previous season into fourteen game winners the following season. The year before last Hoak was an assistant to Mark Arce at West Hills Junior College where he helped the Falcons to a regional playoff birth. Previous to these experiences Hoak served under three different head coaches at UNLV from 1997-2002, beginning with Bill Bayno, Max Good, and culminating with Charlie Spoonhour. Hoak joined the Runnin Rebel staff as a student manager, and was quickly promoted to Video Coordinator for the remainder of his career at UNLV. The Rebels had four twenty win seasons, two Mountain West Conference championships, two Mountain West Conference tournament championships, three NIT births, and two NCAA tournament births during Hoak’s tenure.

     A native of San Bernardino, California the 26-year old Hoak earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education from UNLV in 2002, and is currently working on a Master’s degree via a distance education program through New Mexico Highlands University.

     Hoak will assist Coach Carr in the day-to-day operation of the program in all areas including; recruiting, advance scouting, youth camps, instruction of the Jaguar post players, and will also assist coach Carr with the C.A.R.R. program.