Central College Volleyball
Head Coach

Kent Clayberg
Head Coach
Iowa Conference Coach of the Year--2003, 2005, 2007

Kent Clayberg is in his ninth season as head volleyball coach and his 13th year on the Central volleyball staff. He was an assistant coach for four years before being promoted to associate head coach in 2002 and then head coach in 2003.

A 1990 Central graduate, Clayberg has compiled a 194-88 (.688) record in eight seasons as head coach, winning five Iowa Conference titles and earning four NCAA Division III playoff berths. He was the Iowa Conference coach of the year in 2007 after sharing the honor in 2003 and 2005.

Clayberg has been an instrumental part of a Dutch program which has produced three NCAA Division III championships, 11 NCAA playoff berths and 12 consecutive Iowa Conference titles, with 17 league crowns overall.

He has been selected three times to coach all-star squads in international competition through USA Athletes International, Inc. He coached a Division III team in the Netherlands in 2001, took a squad of Division II all-stars to the Northern University Games in Cairn, Australia in 2005 and led a team of combined division players to Scotland in 2009.

He previously was an elementary school teacher at Boone, Iowa. He earned a master’s degree in education with a concentration in exercise physiology from Iowa State University. He was a student coach for the Cyclone volleyball team for one season and served as a club coach as well. Clayberg also teaches in Central’s exercise science department.

He has been selected to coach all-star squads in international competition through USA Athletes International, Inc. He coached a Division III team in the Netherlands in 2001, took a squad of Division II all-stars to the Northern University Games in Cairn, Australia in 2005 and led a team of combined division players to Scotland in 2009.