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Katie Meier is a former college basketball coach who last coached the women's basketball team at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. She is a 1990 graduate of Duke University, where she played college basketball.

Playing career
Meier's success as a coach is a direct reflection on her playing career as a stand-out at Duke University. A four-year letter winner for the Blue Devils under head coach Debbie 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 the William Jones Cup competition in Taipei, 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. ==Duke statistics==
Coaching career
Miami (FL) Meier coached for 16 seasons for the Miami 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 the AP College Basketball Coach of the Year. 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. 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. Charlotte 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. During her time at Tulane, Meier and the Green Wave also saw an impressive seven-year run at the NCAA Tournament. UNC Asheville Meier began her collegiate coaching career at the University of North Carolina at Asheville where she served as an assistant coach during the 1993–94 season. USA basketball Meier served as the head coach of the USA Women's USA U18 team, representing the US in the FIBA Americas Championship in Gurabo, Puerto Rico where the team won all five games, resulting in the gold medal for the competition. She then continued as the head coach of the USA U19 team, which represented the US in the FIBA U19 World Championship held in Panevezys and Klaipeda, 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 with Billy Donovan), co-recipient of the 2013 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year award. == Personal life ==
Personal life
Meier married her wife, former Miami TV personality Hunter Reno, in 2022. ==Head coaching record==
Head coaching record
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Awards and honors
• 2003 WBCA Region IV Division I Coach of the Year • 2003 Conference USA Coach of the Year • 2011 AP College Basketball Coach of the Year • 2013 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year award ==References==
External
• Video highlights of the co-recipients of the 2013 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year award
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