Katy Steding

With five seasons under her belt as an assistant coach at her alma mater, former Cardinal student-athlete and Stanford Hall of Famer Katy Steding has helped the Cardinal maintain its position as one of the premier programs in women's college basketball.

Working primarily with the post players, Stanford has gone 138-33 (.807) in Steding's five seasons on The Farm, the fifth-most wins of any school in the nation during that span. The Cardinal won four Pac-12 regular season titles along with the 2021 and 2022 tournament championships and has gone 73-18 in conference during Steding's tenure. Under her guidance, Cameron Brink was earned three consecutive All-America honors and was named the WBCA Defensive Player of the Year as junior and Naismith Defensive Player of the Year as a senior.

Steding, Tara VanDerveer's first signed recruit, led Stanford to its 1990 NCAA title during her senior season and joined the Cardinal following an extensive professional career as a player and coaching stops at Warner Pacific, the Atlanta Dream, Columbia, California, Boston University and most recently, San Francisco. 

Steding's name is littered throughout the Stanford record books, ranking 11^th in career rebounds (864), 12^th in career rebounding average (7.0), 15^th in career scoring (1,586) and both sixth and ninth in single-season 3-point percentage as a junior (.446) and senior (.464). She also holds the program's single-game steals record with 10 at Northwestern in 1988 and was a three-time All-Pac-10 selection.

Following graduation, Steding embarked on a professional playing career overseas with stops in Japan and Spain before returning to the United States and earning a spot on the national team in 1995. Coached by VanDerveer, the "Women's Dream Team" compiled a 60-0 record that culminated with a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. After her time with Team USA, Steding became a founding player for the Portland Power of the American Basketball League before playing with Sacramento Monarchs and Seattle Storm of the WNBA. She retired from professional basketball in 2001.
 
Steding began her coaching career at Warner Pacific University in Portland. In seven seasons, she helped transition the program from club-level to a varsity team. Steding recorded a pair of 20-plus win seasons, leading the Knights to the NAIA Division II National Tournaments in 2004 and 2006. Steding then spent one season each as an assistant for the WNBA's Atlanta Dream and Columbia in New York City. Her first stop at San Francisco was as an assistant under former Stanford teammate, Jennifer Azzi, from 2010-12.
 
She then traveled across the Bay, serving as an assistant at California from 2012-2014, helping the Golden Bears to a trip to the Final Four in 2013, before being hired as head coach at Boston University. In her tenure, the Terriers enjoyed their highest conference win total since joining the Patriot League during the 2016-17 season. She returned to San Francisco as an associate head coach in 2018, working with yet another former Stanford teammate, Molly Goodenbour.