Steve Yang is in his fourth season on the Hilltop. He came to Georgetown from George Mason University where he was the director of basketball operations.
In the summer of 2018, Yang was part of the inaugural Teamworks Basketball Leadership Committee. The group was made up of 11 members selected among the Teamworks partners. Yang and the committee helped shape the future of student-athlete engagement and developed best practices throughout the athletics industry focusing specifically on basketball.
Since graduating from Missouri State in 2006, Yang’s career has included stops at his alma mater as well as Winthrop University, the University of Illinois-Springfield and George Mason.
While at Springfield, Yang took over as the interim head coach after spending time as an assistant coach and community event coordinator. Before Springfield, Yang spent the 2013-14 season as the director of operations at Winthrop University.
His stint with Winthrop followed a season as the director of operations at Missouri State. Prior to his time with the Lady Bears, he spent four years at Evangel University as an assistant coach and video coordinator as well as serving as an assistant on both the men’s and women’s basketball coaching staffs at McCook (Neb.) Community College for a year. Additionally, he was the boys varsity head coach at Miami School in Amoret, Missouri.
Yang currently serves on the inaugural Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. He is also the co-founder and currently serving as vice president for the Asian Coaches Association, which features members from all levels of basketball.
Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Yang earned a Bachelor of Science in recreation and leisure studies from Missouri State in 2006 and a Master of Science in administrative studies and sports management from MSU in 2010. Yang and his wife, Lisa, have two sons, Lincoln and Landon, and a daughter, Scarlett, and reside in Woodbridge, Virginia.
