2012-13 North Dakota State (Defensive Coordinator/DB)
Year in Coaching: 27th
He became the defensive coordinator the following season in 2012 until being promoted in 2014. Hometown: Waterloo, Iowa
Klieman and his wife, Rhonda, are parents of two sons, Devin and Colby, and one daughter, Haley. He became Co-Defensive Coordinator the next year and held that position until leaving for North Dakota State in 2011.[6]. In early 2006, he stepped down from his head coaching position at Loras to accept the defensive backs coaching position back at his alma mater Northern Iowa. 1994-96 Western Illinois (Defensive Backs)
Klieman was a three-time All-Gateway Conference defensive back at Northern Iowa and four-year letterwinner from 1986-90. [4] Through high school he was a star athlete, competing as quarterback and defensive back on the football team. The 2017 season continued the Bison dominance by again going 10–1 and winning their seventh consecutive MVFC title and avenging the previous years loss to James Madison by beating them in the Championship Game 17–13. “We haven’t had a … 2005 Loras College (Head Coach)
They ended the year at 12–2, their sixth straight season with double-digit wins. Rhonda S Klieman, Rhonda S Meade and Rhonda Meade are some of the alias or nicknames that Rhonda has used. Children: Devin, Colby, Haley, Northern Iowa (1990)
Christopher Paul Klieman (born September 27, 1967) is an American football coach and former player, and is currently the head coach for Kansas State University in the Big 12 Conference. He took over from the retiring Bill Snyder after leading North Dakota State University to the 2018 Division I FCS championship, marking his fourth national championship in five seasons at NDSU.[1][2]. It was Klieman's third National Championship in four seasons and the Bison's sixth in seven years. They won it all again in 2018. His father Bob, a Hall of Fame official and a long time coach of both golf and football at Columbus Catholic High School, is also a member of the Upper Iowa University Athletic Hall of Fame. As Chris Klieman enters his second season as head coach for the Kansas State Wildcats, he seems to have earned lots of respect from his players. After high school, Klieman attended the University of Northern Iowa where he played in the defensive secondary for the Panthers football team from 1986 to 1990. Klieman signed a six-year contract worth $16.8 million. 2008 Northern Iowa (Co-Defensive Coordinator/DB)
In 2005, he accepted his first head coaching position, leading the Division III Loras Duhawks to a 3–7 record. NDSU became the first Division 1 football program to win four consecutive championships. 2002-04 Loras College (Defensive Coordinator)
He was raised in Waterloo and graduated from Columbus Catholic High School in 1986. He then spent five seasons at Loras College from 2001 to 2005, serving as defensive coordinator from 2002–2004. He took over from the retiring Bill Snyder after leading North Dakota State University to the 2018 Division I FCS championship, marking his fourth national championship in five seasons at NDSU. Here’s a look at how he pulled that off. After Bohl announced that he was leaving to become the head coach of Wyoming, then athletic director Gene Taylor promoted Klieman to become the 30th head football coach in Bison history in 2014. On December 10, 2018, Kansas State University announced Klieman had been hired as the program's 35th head coach to replace the recently retired Bill Snyder.