Coach Tim Bieri is in his 8th season as the head coach of the Women's Basketball team. Bieri was the inaugural coach for the program when Multnomah added Women's Basketball in 2014. Bieri came to Portland in 2010 to serve as Multnomah's assistant men's basketball coach while his wife earned her master's degree in Christian Leadership at MU.
Since the launch of the Women's program, Bieri has led the Lions to two Cascade Collegiate Conference play-off appearances.
Bieri is a native of Colorado, where he was a high school four-sport athlete (golf, basketball, soccer and baseball). He specifically shined in basketball and earned a full scholarship to Fort Lewis College (NCAA Div. II) in Durango, Colorado. In 2015 Bieri was named to the Berthoud High School Athletics Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Fort Lewis College Athletic Hall of Fame in October 2017.
After college, Bieri pursued a professional basketball career. However, Bieri was eventually led to pursue a life of ministry, and became involved with the Christian basketball mission organization, News Release Basketball. Bieri has since played, coached and served with News Release for the past 18 years in countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, Croatia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland and Japan.
From 2010-2015 Bieri filled the role of Sports Information Director and served as Multnomah's Volleyball coach. In 2015, Bieri began the role of Assistant Athletics Director.
In 2007 Bieri earned is undergraduate degree in English Communications from Fort Lewis College.
In 2021 He completed his Masters of Management and Leadership from Multnomah.
Coach Tim and his wife, Sara, currently reside in Gresham, Oregon, and have three sons, Isaac, Asher and Bennett.
