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| Born | (1967-12-19)December 19, 1967 (age 57) Wheaton, Illinois, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1985–1990 | Duke | |||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | UNC Asheville (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1994–2001 | Tulane (assistant/associate) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2005 | Charlotte | |||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2024 | Miami (FL) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Overall | 441–281 (.611) | |||||||||||||||||
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Katie Meier (born December 19, 1967)[1] is a former college basketball coach who last coached the women's basketball team at theUniversity of Miami inCoral Gables, Florida.[2] She is a 1990 graduate ofDuke University, where she played college basketball.[2][3]
Upon her retirement from coaching in 2024, Meier had the most wins (362) of any coach of theUniversity of Miami women's basketball team in the program's 50-year history.
Meier's success as a coach is a direct reflection on her playing career as a stand-out atDuke University. A four-year letter winner for the Blue Devils under head coachDebbie Leonard from 1986 to 1990, Meier's name is scattered throughout the Duke record books. In 1990, Meier was named to the team representing the United States at theWilliam Jones Cup competition inTaipei, Taiwan. The USA team was primarily made up of players from North Carolina State, while Meier was one of three players from other schools. The team had a record of 3–4 in the competition. Meier averaged 5.9 points per game.[4]
She currently ranks third all-time in scoring average (16.2 points per game), steals (232), free throws made (447) and free throws attempted (624). She also ranks fourth all-time in points (1,761), and fifth all-time in field goals made (653), field goals attempted (1,283) and assists (409) and ninth all-time at Duke in rebounding average (6.1 rebounds per game).
At Duke, in 1986, she earned ACC Rookie of the Year and Basketball Yearbook Freshman All-America honors. Meier injured her knee during her in 1988 during her junior season and ultimately missed the entire 1989 campaign while recovering.
Following graduation, Meier headed overseas to play professional basketball, spending three seasons with BBC Mini-Flat team inWaregam, Belgium from 1990 until 1993.[5]
Source[6]
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985–86 | Duke | 30 | 438 | 49.6% | 0.0% | 73.9% | 4.9 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 14.6 |
| 1986–87 | Duke | 29 | 490 | 48.0% | 0.0% | 65.3% | 5.2 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 16.9 |
| 1987–88 | Duke | 22 | 304 | 46.4% | 23.5% | 74.8% | 5.6 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 13.8 |
| 1989–90 | Duke | 28 | 529 | 45.9% | 26.7% | 72.9% | 8.9 | 4.0 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 18.9 |
| Career | 109 | 1761 | 47.5% | 25.0% | 71.6% | 6.1 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 16.2 | |
Meier coached for 16 seasons for theMiami Hurricanes. She led her 2010–2011 team to a 26–3 (12–2) record and claimed a share of the ACC regular season title. She was named ACC Coach of the Year for the 2010–2011 campaign, as well as theAP College Basketball Coach of the Year.[7][8] In her 15 seasons leading the Canes, Meier has amassed nine 20-win seasons and coached the team to 11 postseason appearances, including 10 straight from 2009 to 2019.[9]On November 9, 2021, she became the all time winningest coach in Miami basketball history. On March 20, 2023, her team upset 1-seeded Indiana in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (Indiana's home arena) by a score of 70–68 as a #9 seed. Just a day earlier, 1-seeded Stanford lost to 8-seeded Ole Miss 54–49, and as a result, South Carolina and Virginia Tech were the only 1-seeds to make it past the Second Round. Miami made it all the way to the Elite Eight (a first for the program), where they lost to 3-seeded LSU 54-42.
On March 21, 2024 Meier announced she would be retiring as the head coach.[10]
During her four-year tenure at Charlotte, Meier led the 49ers to three postseason berths - one NCAA Tournament appearance (2003) and two WNIT appearances (2004, 2005) - and a combined overall record of 76–45 (.628). Prior to her appointment as head coach at Charlotte in 2001, the 49ers had only one previous postseason appearance - a WNIT berth in 1990. Meier was named both the WBCA Region IV Division I Coach of the Year and the Conference USA Coach of the Year in 2003.[11]
In her inaugural campaign at Charlotte, Meier led the 49ers to a 16–13 finish to record their first winning season in eight years. The following season, she guided the 49ers to a 21–9 finish marking the most wins (21) in over a decade at Charlotte. With a 12–2 record in Conference USA play, Meier and the 49ers also earned the school's first-ever C-USA regular-season championship and earned the school's first-ever appearance at the NCAA Tournament.Meier was named both the WBCA Region IV Division I Coach of the Year and the Conference USA Coach of the Year in 2003.[11]
Meier was named both the WBCA Region IV Division I Coach of the Year and the Conference USA Coach of the Year in 2003.[11]
Prior to Charlotte, Meier spent seven seasons atTulane University, serving as an associate head coach from 1999 to 2001 and an assistant coach on the Green Wave staff from 1994 to 1999. As a member of the Tulane coaching staff, Meier helped the Green Wave to an overall record of 164–52 (.759) in seven seasons, including the highest ranking in school history (13th by the Associated Press) in 2000 and a school-record 27 wins the same season.[12]
During her time at Tulane, Meier and the Green Wave also saw an impressive seven-year run at the NCAA Tournament.
Meier began her collegiate coaching career at theUniversity of North Carolina at Asheville where she served as an assistant coach during the 1993–94 season.[13]
Meier served as the head coach of the USA Women'sUSA U18 team, representing the US in the FIBA Americas Championship inGurabo, Puerto Rico where the team won all five games, resulting in the gold medal for the competition.[14] She then continued as the head coach of theUSA U19 team, which represented the US in the FIBA U19 World Championship held inPanevezys andKlaipeda,Lithuania in 2013. The helped guide the team to a 9–0 record, which resulted in the gold medal for the competition. She was named (along withBilly Donovan), co-recipient of the 2013 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year award.[15]
Meier married her wife, former Miami TV personality Hunter Reno, in 2022.[16]
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Charlotte(Conference USA)(2001–2005) | |||||||||
| 2001–02 | Charlotte | 16–13 | 7–7 | 8th | |||||
| 2002–03 | Charlotte | 21–9 | 12–2 | 1st | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2003–04 | Charlotte | 17–14 | 8–6 | 7th | WNIT Second Round | ||||
| 2004–05 | Charlotte | 22–9 | 9–5 | 5th | WNIT First Round | ||||
| Charlotte: | 76–45 (.628) | 36–20 (.643) | |||||||
| Miami(Atlantic Coast Conference)(2005–2024) | |||||||||
| 2005–06 | Miami | 17–13 | 6–8 | T-6th | WNIT Second Round | ||||
| 2006–07 | Miami | 11–19 | 2–12 | 11th | |||||
| 2007–08 | Miami | 9–21 | 2–12 | T-12th | |||||
| 2008–09 | Miami | 13–17 | 2–12 | T-12th | |||||
| 2009–10 | Miami | 22–14 | 4–10 | T-10th | WNIT Runner Up | ||||
| 2010–11 | Miami | 28–5 | 12–2 | T-1st | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2011–12 | Miami | 26–6 | 14–2 | 2nd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2012–13 | Miami | 21–11 | 11–7 | T-4th | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2013–14 | Miami | 16–15 | 8–8 | 8th | WNIT First Round | ||||
| 2014–15 | Miami | 20–13 | 8–8 | T-7th | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2015–16 | Miami | 24–9 | 10–6 | 5th | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2016–17 | Miami | 24–9 | 10–6 | 7th | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2017–18 | Miami | 21–11 | 10–6 | T-6th | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2018–19 | Miami | 25–9 | 12–4 | T-3rd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2019–20 | Miami | 15–15 | 7–11 | T-11th | |||||
| 2020–21 | Miami | 11–11 | 8–10 | T–9th | |||||
| 2021–22 | Miami | 21–13 | 10–8 | T-7th | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2022–23 | Miami | 22–13 | 11–7 | T-6th | NCAA Elite Eight | ||||
| 2023–24 | Miami | 19–12 | 8–10 | 9th | |||||
| Miami: | 365–236 (.607) | 155–149 (.510) | |||||||
| Total: | 441–281 (.611) | ||||||||
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