SMSU Athletics

Nate Kaeding is in his fourth season as an assistant coach at Southwest Minnesota State and his second as full-time assistant in 2010-11.  He was hired as a full-time assistant coach on Oct. 6, 2009.

During his first three seasons at SMSU, Kaeding helped the Mustang program to 62 victories, including an NSIC championship and NCAA region championship in 2008-09 and an appearance in the NSIC tournament championship game last season.  In the summer of 2009, he accepted an assistant coaching position at NCAA II Montana State-Billings before returning to SMSU.

A native of Fargo, N.D., Kaeding was a three-year letterwinner for the University of Mary, where he graduated in the spring of 2007 with degrees in accounting and business administration.  As a senior he was team captain and was named academic All-NSIC.

In the summer of 2007, he coached the 16 and 17-year old ECI Select West AAU team out of North Dakota.

Kaeding, who completed his master’s degree in business administration from SMSU in 2009, lives in Marshall.