DePauw University

Brad Stevens earned four varsity letters in men’s basketball as he played in all 101 games during his career. An all-Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference honorable mention selection in 1996 and DePauw Coaches’ Award recipient as a senior, Stevens twice recorded a career-high 24 points in a game. He was a management fellow and a three-time Academic All-America© nominee, while also serving as a civic intern at DePauw’s Hartman Center. He earned a BA degree in economics and began a career as a marketing associate at Eli Lilly and Co. Stevens left that position to pursue his coaching dream.

Starting as a volunteer coach at Butler University in summer 2000, Stevens became the Bulldogs’ director of basketball operations for the 2000-01 season and a full-time coaching assistant the next season. He remained in that capacity until April 2007, when he was named the team’s head coach. In six seasons at the helm, he posted a 166-49 record, and his team made two appearances in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship game. He set Division I records for the best coaching starts after his third, fourth, fifth and sixth seasons. On July 3, 2013, Stevens became the 17th head coach of the Boston Celtics. In his fourth season he led the Celtics to an NBA Eastern Conference-best record of 53-29 and an appearance in the conference finals; the 2018 squad was 55-27 and also advanced to the conference finals. In 2017, he was the sixth Boston coach to coach the Eastern Conference All-Star team. Over the course of six seasons, his teams are 270-222 and he was named the conference coach of the month three times.

Stevens and his wife, Tracy, also a 1999 DePauw graduate, are parents of son Brady and daughter Kinsley.