Kai Dugquem is in his first season as a volunteer assistant coach with the USMMA women's volleyball team in 2022. Dugquem will be in charge of all on-court volleyball activities for the Mariners throughout the season, coaching all practices and matches.
He has also served on the LIU men’s volleyball staff since September 2021.
Dugquem previously coached at New Jersey City University, serving as a women’s volleyball assistant coach and helping guide the team to its best record in more than a decade. In addition to his coaching duties with Jersey City, Dugquem served as the lead head coach with Gold Medal Squared volleyball, a traveling club team, since May of 2020. Before that, he spent one year in 2018-19 as the head coach of the Utah Valley University men's club volleyball team.
On the court, Dugquem has played professionally for the Utah Stingers of the National Volleyball Association (NVA) as a libero/defensive specialist since October of 2019. Additionally, he was a libero/setter for the Malory Eagles of the England Super League (ESL) in London in 2020-21.
Dugquem was a three-year member of The Ohio State University men's club volleyball team as a libero from 2012-15. He was selected as a Second Team All-American as a libero by the National Collegiate Volleyball Federation (NCVF) as a senior. Additionally, while with the Buckeyes, he served as a practice player for the women's NCAA Division I program. He also played collegiately with the University at East London in 2020.
A 2015 graduate of OSU, Dugquem earned a B.A. in finance. He also earned his M.B.A. from East Long in 2021.
