Tarleton State hired Bryan Klobucar as Director of Athletic Performance. The 2025-26 season will mark his second as a Texan. Klobucar leads the Athletic Performance department, with volleyball and men's and women's golf as his primary sports.
He joined the Texan community with a wealth of experience, with stops at Colgate, Oregon State, Arizona, Black Hills State, Boise State and Gardner-Webb.
“I am extremely honored and humbled to be the next Director of Athletic Performance at Tarleton State University,” Klobucar said at the time of his hire. “To have the opportunity to help improve the student-athlete experience at a program with such rich history is extremely exciting, but to have this opportunity with an administration that shares the same vision and core values as you makes it once in a lifetime. My goal is to develop student-athletes and staff at the highest level and create the best Athletic Performance department in the conference, the state of Texas, and the NCAA, while upholding the values of Tarleton State University.”
Klobucar was named the head of Tarleton Athletic Performance following Rod Cole’s retirement after 15 years leading the department.
Klobucar spent three seasons at Colgate as the Director of Strength and Conditioning, where he worked directly with Football, Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey, Golf, Softball, Rowing, and Women’s Basketball. Across his three-year stint there, Colgate University won 10 league championships.
At Oregon State, Klobucar served as an associate strength and conditioning coach, working directly with the football program. He was in charge of catapult and other wearable technology as well as return to play protocol for injured athletes.
His first Power Four conference position came at Arizona, where he was an assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2015-18. During his time in Tucson, he assisted with the design and implementation of strength and conditioning for football and supervised the training program for track and field throwers. He also assisted with softball and baseball.
Klobucar got his start in the profession as a volunteer assistant/strength and conditioning coach at his alma mater, Saginaw Valley State.
The Grand Rapids, Michigan, native played football at Saginaw Valley State, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science in 2011. He completed his master’s degree from Gardner-Webb in sports science and pedagogy in 2013.
Klobucar holds the following certifications: Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Eleiko Strength Coach, Functional Movement Systems Level 1, Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified, and USA Weightlifting.
Bryan Klobucar and his wife, Meghan, have a son, Brooks, who was born in 2021.
