Cornell College

Kahl has served as Cornell's Sports Information Director since July 2007. He was promoted to Associate Director of Athletics for Communications and External Operations in Fall 2026.  

Kahl was named 2022-23 Small College SID of the Year by the National Wrestling Media Association. 

Kahl handles all communications coverage for the 21 NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports on the Hilltop. Under Kahl's direction, the Rams have hosted 26 conference tournaments and eight NCAA championship events, including the institution's first-ever NCAA Volleyball Regional in 2023. Cornell has crowned 157 conference individual champions, 29 conference team champions, 19 NCAA team qualifiers, 86 all-Americans and four national champions since Kahl's arrival.

Kahl, recipient of Cornell's 2014 Staff Appreciation Award, is an active member of College Sports Communicators (CSC). He was Midwest Conference Chair of the Sports Information Directors Committee from 2020-23, while also serving on the MWC Championships Committee during that span.

A 1995 graduate of Clarence-Lowden High School, Kahl earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Central College in 1999. While at Central, Kahl played baseball and worked in the sports information department four years under Hall of Famer Larry Happel.

Kahl was sports editor at the Mount Pleasant News (1999-2000) and sports writer at The Hawk Eye in Burlington (2000-2005). He was sports information director and assistant baseball coach at Iowa Wesleyan College from 2005-07.  

Kahl and his wife, Melissa, reside in Lisbon and have two children, Kamryn and Klayton.