University of West Alabama

Tim Kjar began serving as Assistant Coach with the St. Catherine University basketball team in 2013. He also worked as an assistant recruiting for the Wildcat softball program in 2014 and 2015, and served as an assistant with the St. Kate's tennis program. 

Kjar has been instrumental in the program's turnaround, and helped the Wildcats to a fifth place finish overall in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) in 2016-17, their most successful season since 2006-07 and the late 1970's. With the help of Kjar's leadership style the Wildcats landed in the MIAC postseason tournament again in 2017-18, finishing sixth overall. Prior to the back to back appearances, the Wildcats had not reached postseason competition since the 2009-10 season. 

This is Kjar's second tenure at St. Kate's as he led the Wildcat basketball team from 1999-2006. During that time, Kjar rebuilt the school's basketball program and helped lead the team to its first winning season since the late 1970s when the Wildcats finished the 2002-03 season with a 14-11 record. Kjar also coached nine MIAC All-Conference players.

Kjar also spent time as the Associate Athletic Director during his first stint at St. Catherine. He was also Assistant Tennis Coach from 2000-2005. The Wildcats finished in the top four in the MIAC over four out of five seasons and qualified for the NCAA tournament in 2004. 
 
Before returning to St. Catherine, Kjar served as the Athletic and Physical Education Director and Head Boy's Basketball Coach at Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco, California.
 
In his coaching role at JCHS, Kjar led the program to a league championship and earned five post-season berths from 2007-2013. As the athletics director, he managed all aspects of the school's varsity programs and worked to add junior varsity teams, as well as additional participation opportunities for girls.
 
Prior to his time at St. Catherine, Kjar served as the Head Women's Basketball Coach from 1995-1999 at Riverland Community and Technical College in Austin, Minn. In his 1998-99 season at Riverland, Kjar led the program to its best record since 1991. He also produced three all-conference, two all-state, two all-region and two all-American players while at Riverland.
 
Kjar earned his bachelor's degree in physical education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He resides with his wife Erin and dog Dezzi in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul.