Stephanie Beck enters her fourth season as the lead assistant on Purdue Northwest Women’s Basketball coaching staff after coming on board in prior to the 2013-14 season.
Beck assisted the Peregrines to their fourth-straight 20-win season during the 2014-15 campaign, as Purdue Calumet finished 21-8 overall and captured the CCAC South Division Title. Purdue Calumet was ranked as high as No. 8 in the NAIA Coaches Top 25 National Poll, which marked the team's highest-ever ranking.
Under Beck's tutelage, junior transfer Jada Buggs was named an NAIA Honorable Mention All-American, while junior Patrice McBee led the nation in field goal percentage and was named the school's first-ever NAIA National Player of the Week to go along with four all-CCAC selections and four CCAC Player of the Weeks.
Beck assisted the Peregrines to perhaps their best season to date in 2013-14, as Purdue Calumet -- with an overall record of 25-7 -- captured both the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament title, advanced to its second-straight National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national tournament, and won its first national tournament contest in school history with an opening-round victory over Oregon Tech. Senior Brooklyn Short was also named an NAIA Honorable Mention All-American that season.
Beck rejoined the Purdue Calumet women’s basketball family after a one-year stint at Williamette University (Salem, Ore.) on head coach Peg Swadener’s staff. During her tenure, the team saw its season three-point total increase by 40 from the year before and the program’s first all-conference player in three seasons.
The Mishawaka, Ind., native wrapped up stellar career with Purdue Calumet in 2011-12, finishing as the school’s third-leading scorer with 1,686 career points. She set a program record with 252 trifectas over the course of her four years in Hammond, while garnering back-to-back First Team CCAC honors.
In addition to her role for the women's basketball team, Beck also enters her second year as the Purdue Calumet head men's and women's cross country coach.
In her first year at the helm in 2014, the men's squad captured its best-ever finish at the 2014 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships, placing fifth -- five spots higher than the Peregrines' did the previous season. In the season finale, the Peregrine men saw six runners record sub-30-minute finishes, led by a pair of Top 25 finishes from Beck recruits and cousins, Alex (21st) and Salvador Cordova (25th). Those finishes proved to be the best in program history.
The Cordova cousins both captured CCAC Runner of the Week honors -- the first in program history -- and went back and forth by breaking the 8-kilometer record five times before finishing the season tied with the program-best mark of 26 minutes and 31 seconds. Both Alex and Salvador also captured two individual titles, as Alex crossed the line first at the Indiana East Red Wolves Regional Rumble and Salvador took home the title at the Crimson Wave Invite.
Beck's leadership didn't just equate into success with the men's squad, as the Peregrine women regained consistency by fielding a team in all eight meets in 2014, highlighted by a second-place team finish at the IU-East Red Wolves Regional Rumble. Freshman Heather Kristensen started the season with an individual title at the same meet, and the squad -- led by five freshman -- went on to take a strong third at the Crimson Wave Invite.
An alumnus of Purdue Calumet, she owns a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and tourism management. Beck earned a master's of coaching and athletic administration through Concordia University Irvine.
