CAREER/COACHING HIGHLIGHTS
Katie has coached in the WNBA since 2014 and is currently the Associate Head Coach of the Minnesota Lynx.
- Played 15 seasons in the WNBA, retiring in 2013 after playing one year with the New York Liberty
- Retired as the all-time scoring leader in women’s professional basketball history with 7,885-career points and ranked second in WNBA history with 6,452 points
- Two-time WNBA Champion (2006, 2008) winning twice with the Detroit Shock
- Voted as one of the top-15 players in WNBA history
- Voted as one of the top-20 best and most influential players in WNBA history in 2016
- Seven-time WNBA All-Star
- Three-time Olympic Gold Medalist (2000, 2004, 2008)
In 2019, Katie Smith entered her sixth season as a member of the New York Liberty coaching staff and her second as the team’s head coach. Smith was elevated to the top position on the bench in October 2017, becoming the seventh head coach in franchise history. Smith originally joined the Liberty staff in 2014 and spent two seasons as an assistant to head coach Bill Laimbeer before assuming the role of associate head coach for the 2016-17 campaigns. In her four seasons working alongside Laimbeer, the Liberty posted an overall regular-season record of 81-55 (.596), including three straight 20-win seasons that earned three consecutive playoff berths from 2015 through 2017.
One of the greatest players in WNBA history, Smith played 15 seasons in the league and, coupled with her two seasons in the ABL, retired as the all-time scoring leader in women’s professional basketball history with 7,885-career points. At the time of her retirement, she ranked second in WNBA history with 6,452 career points and first in both three-point field goals made (906) and attempted (2,466), fourth in free throws made (1,440), and 10th in all-time assists (1,258). Smith was a two-time WNBA champion (2006, 2008) playing for Laimbeer, then the Shock head coach. She also voted as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history in 2011 (the league’s 15th season) and as one of the Top 20 best and most influential players in WNBA history in 2016, the league’s 20th campaign.
