Tim Nellegar, a 2000 graduate of Caldwell University, begins his third year of his second stint as an assistant women’s basketball coach for the Cougars. Nellegar, who was an assistant for the Cougars from 2001 to 2003, was a high school coach for eight years prior to coming back to his alma mater in 2012.
A former tennis player and student manager at Caldwell, Nellegar was an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team under Mark A. Corino before joining the women’s coaching staff in 2001. That year, the Cougars placed second in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference and earned a bid to the NAIA National Tournament. The following year, Caldwell won the CACC Tournament for the second time in the history of the program.
Nellegar served as an assistant coach for the Clifton High School boys’ basketball team for one year before spending five seasons as the head coach for the Clifton girls’ team. For the past three years, he coached the junior varsity girls’ basketball team at Bloomfield High School, leading his team to a 19-0 record and an Essex County championship last season.
A communications and political science major while at Caldwell, Nellegar was a four-year member of the men’s tennis team, earning Academic All-American honors in 2000. He has worked at McKinley School in Newark, N.J., for the past 13 years, and currently serves as the technology coordinator.
A native of Bloomfield, N.J., Nellegar and his wife Jennifer, also a 2000 graduate of Caldwell, and their daughter Kaitlyn live in Lake Hiawatha, N.J.
