University of Northwestern Women's Basketball

Kahl, who is also an assistant athletic director at Northwestern, led the Eagles to their first NCAA Division III Tournament appearance and first 20-win season since 2001-2012 in 2014. Since Kahl took the program reins in 2010, UNW has gone 98-70 overall and 61-23 in UMAC play.   In 2010-11, Kahl took over a team that finished the 2009-10 campaign with a 15-13 overall record and a 7-7 mark in Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) play. His Eagles finished second in the UMAC standings and finished as the runner-up in the conference tournament. Kahl's 2012-13 squad also took second in the conference, going 16-10 overall and 11-3 in UMAC competition. 2013-14 saw Northwestern win the UMAC Tournament to punch the Eagles' ticket to the NCAA Tournament while Mollie Sir was named the league's player of the year. UNW then followed that with an invitation to the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Tournament in 2014-15. On top of his basketball duties, Kahl oversees the Northwestern athletics department's transportation needs and tickets and concessions operations. In his three years at Dakota Wesleyan University prior to UNW, the Tigers went a combined 38-56 (.404), including a 17-15 record in his first season as head coach after DWU went 7-22 the year before. To Kahls credit, Dakota Wesleyan is a member of the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC), which has boasted nine of the last 10 NAIA Division II womens basketball champions. Kahl's coaching career began in 2001, when he became an assistant coach at Gustavus Adolphus College, his alma mater. During Kahls tenure as the top womens assistant at Gustavus from 2001 to 2006, the Gusties went 99-34 (.744) with a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) championship and an appearance in the NCAA National Tournament in 2003. Kahl, who played two seasons of basketball at Gustavus, followed with one year as the go-to assistant for the mens squad before heading west to Mitchells famed Corn Palace to lead Dakota Wesleyan. Throughout  his time as a student-athlete and a graduate assistant coach, the Guties twice went to the NCAA National Tournament. Kahl, a native of Inwood, Iowa, earned his bachelors degree in elementary education from Gustavus Adolphus in 2000 before earning a Master of Science degree in sport administration from Minnesota State University-Mankato in 2006. Aaron's wife Amy and their three children,  Tyler, Makenna, and Kinsley, complete the Kahl family, which resides in Mounds View.