Kyle Steinway

Kyle Steinway just completed his ninth season as an assistant coach on the Sacred Heart University men’s basketball staff in 2021-22. This season he helped lead the Pioneers to a third-place finish in the Northeast Conference, once again qualifying for the NEC Championship.

During the 2020-21 season, Steinway has been part of a Sacred Heart staff that currently holds the longest active streak of consecutive NEC Championship appearances. The Pioneers had a strong season, finishing third in the standings after being picked 10th, and did this with one of the nation’s youngest teams as, ranking as the 314^th youngest squad.

The 2019-20 season saw Sacred Heart have their best season at the NCAA Division I level as the Pioneers won 20 games and advanced to the semifinals of the NEC Championship. 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 at the NEC Championship.

Steinway has been an integral part of Sacred Heart’s recent three-year stretch in which they have finished in the top three in the NEC standings all three season and have more NEC regular season wins than any other program. In that same stretch, the Pioneers have dominated the annual conference awards, earning five all-conference selections, three all-rookie selections, two NEC Most Improved Player Awards, and one NEC Defensive Player of the Year Award.

During the 2015-16 season, Steinway helped develop the 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.

Prior to 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 would go on to earn 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 (MA) College and Newberry (SC) College.

He currently resides in Milford, Connecticut, with his wife, Kristen, and his son, Kyle Jr.