Kim Chandler

Director of Athletics
(608) 363-2296

chandler@beloit.edu

 Kim Chandler became Beloit College's first full-time athletic director on July 1, 2004.

Chandler has an extensive background at all levels of intercollegiate athletics. She was a student athlete at an NCAA Division III school, and has quality experience as a coach, leader and administrator.

Chandler comes to Beloit from Saginaw Valley State University, an NCAA Division II institution in University Center, Mich. At SVSU, Chandler was the assistant athletic director of business affairs, the senior women administrator, and the head women's basketball coach.

Chandler has 15 years of administrative, coaching, and teaching experience at NCAA institutions. She graduated from Ohio Northern University in 1988 with a bachelor of arts degree in history, sports medicine and health as well as with secondary teacher and coaching certification. At Ohio Northern, she was a four-year basketball letterwinner, and helped the Polar Bears to a 75-27 record. In her senior season, Chandler led ONU to a 23-4 mark, the Atlantic Regional Championship, and a No. 5 ranking in NCAA Division III. The team captain as a junior and senior, Chandler was named first-team All-Academic Ohio Athletic Conference twice and was a two-time second team All-OAC pick. She finished her career with 906 points, the seventh-most points in school history.

Chandler began her coaching career in 1988-89 at Bowling Green State University as a graduate assistant, where she helped lead BGSU to a Sweet Sixteen finish in the NCAA Tournament. She then worked as an assistant at Florida Southern College for two seasons before being named the head women basketball coach at California State Northridge. Upon her hiring there, she became the sixth youngest coach ever named at the NCAA Division I level.

In 1995, she returned to her roots as she coached the women basketball team at her alma mater, Ohio Northern. During her five-year stint at ONU, she earned Ohio Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors after the 1996-97 season. She moved on to Saginaw Valley State in the fall of 2001. The Cardinals were 16-12 this past season, and advanced to the postseason conference tournament for the first time in five years.