He received an Master of Arts from Humboldt in 1988. He was an assistant basketball coach at Oceanside High School from 1989 to 1990. He returned to Humboldt where he served as an assistant to basketball coach Tom Wood from 1990 to 2010.
He received the first Clarence Gaines Award for the nation"s best Division II basketball coach in 2011.
Kinder earned a Bachelor of Surgery in physical education from HSU in 1985 when he also played for the basketball team that won the California Collegiate Athletic Association that year. In his first year as head coach in the 2010-2011 season the Lumberjacks went 26-4, won the CCAA title and appeared in the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs. In the 2011-2012 season the team was 22-8, won the CCAA post season tournament and lost in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs.
