Kris Nord Position: Head Coach

The 2011-12 season is men's tennis coach Kris Nord's 30th year at the University of Montana. In his three-decade tenure with the Grizzlies, Nord has coached men's tennis, women's tennis and women's golf.

Montana is coming off another successful season in 2010-11.

Nord coached the Grizzlies to a 12-8 spring duals record and a 6-2 finish in the Big Sky Conference, which tied for second.

Montana went 9-2 in region matches during the spring and ranked 10th in the ITA Mountain Region at season's end.

Carl Kuschke was named first-team All-Big Sky Conference, Josh Smith and Mikolaj Caruk second team.

In the classroom, Montana had a 3.21 team grade point average for the spring 2011 semester, its fifth straight term having a team GPA of at least 3.00.

Nord was hired as the head women's and assistant men's tennis coach in 1982. He became the head coach for both programs in 1986.

Nord coached both programs until handing the women's program over to Jen (Canuso) Anderson in 2006. (Canuso) Anderson was a one-time, first-team All-Big Sky Conference selection and two-time, second-team pick while playing under Nord in the late 90s.

Under mainly Nord's guidance, the women's program has advanced to the Big Sky Conference postseason tournament every year since 1990. The men's team has played in the postseason tournament every year since 1991.

The men's team was the Big Sky Conference tournament runner-up in 2006 and has eight third-place ties to its credit during its current streak of tournament appearances.

The women's team has nine times tied for third during its current streak.

Nord was named the Mountain West Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1986 for his work with the Montana women's tennis team.

A Missoula native, Nord graduated from Sentinel High School in 1976 after winning the state AA singles title. He was also named all-state in football and basketball.

Nord was recruited to play football for the Grizzlies but opted to sign a tennis scholarship with UNLV, where he spent his freshman and sophomore years.

Following his second year, Nord took a year off from college and went to Alaska, where he served as a teaching professional at Tanana Valley Community College in Fairbanks.

Nord enrolled at Boise State in the fall of 1979, and he finished out his collegiate tennis career with the Broncos. He was the Big Sky Conference champion at No. 3 singles and BSU's Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete in 1981.

Nord spent a year on the Satellite Circuit before being appointed to the Montana tennis coaching staff in 1982.

Nord, who earned a degree in health and human performance from UM in 1986, served as Montana's first women's golf coach from 1993 to 1996.

Nord's late father, Ron, was the head basketball coach for the Grizzlies from 1962 to 1968 and was an assistant football coach from 1969 to 1974. His brothers, Jeff and Mark, both played basketball for the Grizzlies.

Nord and his wife, Robi, have two sons, Anders and Isak.