Katy Steding

Katy Steding (born December 11, 1967 in Tualatin, Oregon) is a former collegiate and professional basketball player and current college basketball coach.

College career

Steding was recruited to Stanford University from Lake Oswego High School. At Stanford, Steding, a power forward, helped lead Stanford to its first NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 1990.

After Stanford, Steding played basketball in Japan and Spain in the early 1990s before earning a spot on the U.S. national team, where she earned a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Professional career

With the formation of the American Basketball League in 1996, Steding returned to Oregon and became the founding player for the Portland Power. When the league folded in 1998, Steding joined the WNBA and played the 2000 season with the Sacramento Monarchs and the 2001 season with the Seattle Storm before retiring from professional basketball.

Coaching career

In 2001, Steding was named head women's basketball coach at Warner Pacific College. Under her leadership, Warner Pacific went to the NAIA basketball tournament for the first time in school history in 2004. In 2006, Steding's team won its first Cascade Conference championship and returned to the NAIA tournament. Steding was selected as Cascade Conference Coach of the Year. Also in 2006, she took a position as Director of Marketing and College Relations for Warner Pacific. [ [http://www.warnerpacific.edu/news.aspx?id=3760 Warner Pacific College ] ]

In 2008, Steding was named an assistant coach of the WNBA expansion team Atlanta Dream.cite press release|url=http://www.wnba.com/dream/steding_080325.html|title=Atlanta Dream Names Katy Steding Assistant Coach|date=2008-03-28|accessdate-=2008-04-10|publisher=WNBA]

Personal

Steding was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, and is also a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.

References

External links

* [http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/katy_steding/ WNBA statistics]