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Kate Paye

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Kate Paye
Stanford Cardinal
PositionHead coach
LeagueAtlantic Coast Conference
Personal information
Born (1974-03-06) March 6, 1974 (age 50)
Woodside, California
Listed height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Listed weight150 lb (68 kg)
Career information
High schoolMenlo School
(Atherton, California)
CollegeStanford (1991–1995)
Playing career1996–2002
PositionGuard
Number14, 7
Coaching career1995–1996, 2004–present
Career history
As player:
1996–1998Seattle Reign
2000–2001Minnesota Lynx
2002Seattle Storm
As coach:
1995–1996San Diego State (assistant)
2004–2005Pepperdine (assistant)
2005–2007San Diego State (assistant)
2007–2016Stanford (assistant)
2016–2024Stanford (associate HC)
2024–presentStanford
Career highlights and awards
As player
As assistant coach
Career WNBA statistics
Points168 (2.1 ppg)
Rebounds98 (1.2 rpg)
Assists140 (1.8 apg)
Stats at Basketball Reference

Katherine Anne Paye[1] (born March 6, 1974) is a former collegiate and professional basketball player who is currently the head coach of the Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team.[2]

Early life and college career

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Paye was born at the medical center of Stanford University's hospital, and was raised in Woodside, California in a family of Stanford student-athletes. Both of her parents, her sister and brother all went to the school. Her father was a running back for Stanford's football team while her brother John was a guard for Stanford's basketball team and quarterback for the Cardinal in the mid-1980s, and later was her basketball coach at Menlo School. At Menlo, Kate led the team to three consecutive California Interscholastic Federation Division V state basketball championships from 1989 to 1991.

After high school, she was recruited by (and turned down) Harvard University, Princeton University and Dartmouth College. Stanford never recruited her, so Paye attended its women's basketball team training camp as a walk-on and tried out. She was accepted and won a spot as a point guard on the team.

In her freshman year in 1992, she played on Stanford's 1992 championship team and earned a scholarship for the following year.

She graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

ABL and WNBA

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In 1996, Paye began her professional basketball career with the Seattle Reign in the American Basketball League (ABL) for three seasons until the league folded.

She later joined the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in 2000, and played for the Minnesota Lynx for two seasons. After she was waived by Lynx in May 2002, she signed a free agent contract with the Seattle Storm and played for them in the 2002 season.

During her WNBA career, she spent the offseason pursuing a JD/MBA degree. And in the Spring of 2003, she graduated from Stanford Law School with a Juris Doctor and the Stanford Graduate School of Business with a Masters in Business Administration.

Career statistics

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Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career best ° League leader

WNBA

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Regular season

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2000 Minnesota 28 12 14.6 .328 .293 .667 1.1 1.4 0.3 0.2 1.0 2.0
2001 Minnesota 32 16 20.4 .385 .357 .688 1.9 3.0 0.7 0.0 1.4 2.8
2002 Seattle 19 0 6.0 .368 .375 .500 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.4 1.1
Career 3 years, 2 teams 79 28 14.9 .361 .336 .667 1.2 1.8 0.4 0.1 1.0 2.1


College

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
1991–92 Stanford 30 - - 23.1 10.5 68.2 1.3 0.8 0.5 0.0 - 1.7
1992–93 Stanford 32 - - 37.0 31.7 68.8 2.8 2.5 0.6 0.0 - 3.9
1993–94 Stanford 31 - - 39.8 35.8 75.8 3.5 5.1 1.6 0.0 - 8.3
1994–95 Stanford 33 - - 37.2 39.4 75.5 3.4 4.4 1.3 0.0 - 9.4
Career 126 - - 37.2 35.4 73.0 2.8 3.2 1.0 0.0 - 5.9
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[3]

Coaching career

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After graduating from Stanford, Paye started her coaching career in 1995 as an assistant coach at San Diego State University for one season. She left the following year to embark upon her playing career in the ABL.

After her playing career ended, Paye returned to coaching when she was hired as a women's basketball assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Pepperdine University for the 2004–05 season. She returned to San Diego State the next season as an assistant coach.

In June 2007, Paye returned to Stanford as an assistant coach.[4] On April 16, 2024, she was named head coach following the retirement of long-time coach Tara VanDerveer.[2][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Katherine Anne Paye #228781 - Attorney Licensee Search". members.calbar.ca.gov. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Kate Paye Named Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women's Basketball". admin.gostanford.com. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
  3. ^ "Kate Paye College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  4. ^ "Paye Back: Former Cardinal Returns As Assistant Coach" (Press release). Stanford University. June 20, 2007. Archived from the original on June 25, 2007. Retrieved June 26, 2007.
  5. ^ "VanDerveer, winningest NCAA hoops coach, retires". ESPN.com. April 10, 2024. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
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