KIM ADAMS

Kim started coaching club and high school volleyball in San Diego while working toward her teaching credential at SDSU. Kim has coached both boys and girls ages 10-18 at a variety of clubs and high schools in San Diego and Orange County over the past 15 years.

From San Diego, Kim flew south to teach 5th grade and P.E. at an elementary school in Bolivia. When she returned, she coached at San Clemente Volleyball Club and San Clemente High School for three seasons. Her JV team was South Coast League Champions two seasons in a row. 

2017-2019, Kim was the head girls' varsity coach at Pacifica Christian High School in Newport Beach. Kim was instrumental in building the volleyball program of a founding school and led the Tritons to a CIF-SS quarterfinal in 2017 and a CIF-SS final in 2018.

Additionally, Kim has been a coach for Gold Medal Squared for the past 13 years, where she trains coaches and players during their summer camps across the country. 

Kim grew up in Laguna Niguel and was a Dana Hills Dolphin, where she led the team as a three-year varsity starting setter. She was awarded 1st team all-league two years in a row and MVP her senior season. Kim went on to play four years of collegiate volleyball for Tom Black at the University of California, San Diego and graduated in 2008 with a bachelors degree in Human Development. She then went overseas to play professionally for one season in Murcia, Spain.

Kim fell in love with the game at the age of 9 during a beach volleyball camp and never looked back. She still loves playing beach or indoors whenever her knees let her. As a coach she is grateful for the opportunity to spread her love for the sport and create a positive environment for players to learn how to be great teammates. She enjoys motivating her players to grow as both athletes and as maturing teenagers, knowing the countless lessons they learn on and off the court can become life skills they will take with them long after club volleyball ends.

She coaches because she loves teaching the game, developing skill and inspiring players to see their potential as young athletes and take ownership for developing the work ethic required to reach their goals. Kim coaches because she wants to give back to young athletes what was given to her by the coaches who invested in her as a player and a person.

Kim has been coaching for 16 years and has been coaching at Prime for 4 years.