[1] After graduation, Kyle married, and moved to Brisbane, where he began teaching and coaching basketball and tennis at Anglican Church Grammar School.

In 1985, he moved to Sydney, where he looked after the sports centre at the Harbord Diggers Memorial Club, and coached the Manly-Warringah Basketball senior men's and teams.

He accepted an offer to coach basketball at Villanova College, and worked various jobs, eventually joining Suncorp Metway as a project manager.

He then accepted an offer from Ettridge to join the Rollers at a training camp in Varese, and the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, quitting his job at Subcorp Metway to do so.

Afterwards, he accepted another offer from Ettridge, to become an assistant coach of the Under 23 national side at the 2009 IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Paris.

[4] A selection panel chaired by Basketball Australia's General Manager of High Performance, Steven Icke that also included Rollers' head coach Ettridge, former Australian Opals head coach Jan Stirling and the General Manager of Sport at the Australian Paralympic Committee, Michael Hartung, chose Kyle.

In announcing his appointment, the chief executive officer of Basketball Australia, Kristina Keneally, said that "in Tom, we have a coach who has the ability to lead the team to future success and understands the expectations on the Gliders program.