Katy Steding

Katy Steding played college ball at Stanford. A power forward, Steding led Stanford to the NCAA title in 1990, its first ever. After college she played professionally in Japan and Spain and was named to the US National Team in 1991. Steding won gold medals with the USA team at the 1991 Universiade and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

In 1996 Steding was selected by the Portland Power of the ABL (American Basketball League). When that league folded in 1998, she joined the WNBA, playing for the Sacramento Monarchs and Seattle Storm before retiring in 2001.

Steding then entered the coaching ranks, first as the head coach of Warner Pacific College, an NAIA school. She was at Warner Pacific until 2008 when she was named an assistant coach of the WNBA expansion team, the Atlanta Dream. In 2020 she became an assistant under Jennifer Azzi, her former Stanford teammate, at the University of San Francisco. She left that position in 2012 to serve as an assistant at U Cal Berkeley. In 2014 Steding became head coach of Boston University, leaving that position in 2018.

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