Kyle Steinway
Assistant Coach
Kyle Steinway just completed his 11th season with the Sacred Heart University men’s basketball staff in 2023-24. After spending 10 seasons as an assistant coach, Steinway was promoted to Associate Head Coach ahead of the 2023-24 season.
Steinway has been a part of the program with 10 Northeast Conference Tournament appearances, including back-to-back top-four finishes in the last two seasons and six straight appearances from 2019-2024. He has coached the program's first Defensive Player of the Year (Jare’l Spellman) and Player of the Year (Cane Broome), along with a pair of Most Improved Players (Tyler Thomas and E.J. Anosike). In addition to the major award winners, Steinway has coached 16 All-NEC players and six NEC all-rookie honorees.
Steinway has played a big role in the recent resurgence of the program over the last several years. The Sacred Heart had their best season at the NCAA Division I level in 2019-20. The Pioneers won 20 games and advanced to the semifinals of the NEC Tournament. The 2019-20 squad was the first Pioneer team to reach 20 wins since the 1988-89 season and was the first team to reach that mark in the Division I era. The team also won their first postseason game since 2009, earning a 61-59 win over Mount Saint Mary’s.
During the 2015-16 season, Steinway helped develop NEC Player of the Year Cane Broome. Broome is the only player in program history to win the conference’s Player of the Year honors and just the second sophomore in league history to win the award. Broome led the NEC and ranked 10th nationally in scoring during the 2015-16 campaign.
Before his time at Sacred Heart, Steinway spent three seasons at Hofstra University as the director of basketball operations. During Steinway’s first season at Hofstra, the team went 21-12 and earned a berth in the 2011 College Basketball Invitational. At Hofstra, Steinway aided in the development of 2011 CAA Player of the Year Charles Jenkins. Jenkins would go on to be drafted in the second round of the NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors.
A 2003 graduate of Providence College with a degree in economics, Steinway started his career as a student manager for head coach Tim Welsh. He earned his master’s degree from Providence in 2007, serving as a graduate assistant coach from 2005-07. During Steinway’s time with the Friars, the program earned one NCAA tournament berth and two National Invitation Tournament selections.
Steinway has also spent time as an assistant coach at Stonehill College and Newberry College.
He currently resides in Milford, Conn., with his wife, Kristen, son, KJ, and daughter Kenzie.