Background
Steding, Katy was born on December 11, 1967 in Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States. Daughter of Mide and Patricia (Huntley) Steding.
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Steding, Katy was born on December 11, 1967 in Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States. Daughter of Mide and Patricia (Huntley) Steding.
Stanford University.
At Stanford, Steding, a power forward, helped lead Stanford to its first National Collegiate Athletic Association Women"s Division I Basketball Championship in 1990. Steding recorded ten steals in a game against Northwestern in 1988. The ten steals represents the school record for steals in a single game.
When she was a freshman, she averaged 8.7 rebounds per game, which still stands (as of 2014) as a school record.
Steding was named to the team representing the United States of America at the World University Games held during July 1991 in Sheffield, England. The team was coached by Tara VanDerveer of Stanford.
After winning opening games easily, the United States of America faced China in the medal round. Steding averaged 10.3 points per game.
Steding was selected to represent the United States of America at the 1995 United States of America Women"s Pan American Games, however, only four teams committed to participate, so the event was cancelled.
After Stanford, Steding played basketball in Japan and Spain (Banco Exterior 1993–1994) in the early 1990s before earning a spot on the United States. national team, where she earned a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. 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 Women's National Basketball Association and played the 2000 season with the Sacramento Monarchs and the 2001 season with the Seattle Storm before retiring from professional basketball.
She was drafted by the Monarchs with the 14th overall pick of the 2000 draft.
In 2001, Steding was named head women"s basketball coach at Warner Pacific College. Under her leadership, Warner Pacific went to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics basketball tournament for the first time in school history in 2004.
Also in 2006, she took a position as Director of Marketing and College Relations for Warner Pacific. In 2008, Steding was named an assistant coach of the Women's National Basketball Association expansion team Atlanta Dream.
After one year with the Dream, she was hired as an assistant coach for Columbia University women"s basketball team
In 2010, Steding was hired as an assistant coach for the University of San Francisco"s women"s basketball team, working with head coach and former Stanford teammate Jennifer Azzi. In May 2012, Steding was named an assistant coach of the California Golden Bears women"s basketball team In June 2014, she was named as the new head coach at Boston University.
Steding was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, and is also a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.
Married John Jueb.