EVANSVILLE, Ind. – With summer workouts underway, University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball Head Coach Rick Stein announced the hiring of Hailey Diestelkamp as an assistant coach ahead of the 2024-25 season.
“We are so excited to have Hailey join our staff and USI family!” Stein said. “Hailey had an outstanding playing career and has carried that success into her coaching.”
Before coming to USI, Diestelkamp was the Director of Basketball Operations for Missouri State University Women’s Basketball for two seasons under the direction of head coach Beth Cunningham.
Prior to Missouri State, Diestelkamp served as a graduate assistant for Saint Louis University. While at SLU, Diestelkamp assisted with game-day preparation, player development, setting up community service activities, and coordinating postgame and travel meals.
“Hailey has worked for some great coaches in winning programs and will bring with her a passion and love for the game,” Stein added. “Her experiences as a graduate assistant and director of basketball operations will be very beneficial to our program as she makes the move to USI and the Ohio Valley Conference.”
Before entering the coaching realm, Diestelkamp had a decorated playing career at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. In her career at Drury, the Lady Panthers owned a 128-8 record, and her jersey is now retired after she ended her career as the team’s all-time leading scorer (2,321) and rebounder (1,101).
Diestelkamp was a two-time NCAA Division II Player of the Year, a two-time First Team All-American, a two-time GLVC Player of the Year, and GLVC Freshman of the Year in 2016-17.
The Owensville, Missouri, native averaged 21.6 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 2.8 steals, while shooting .522 from the field for an undefeated (32-0) Great Lakes Valley Conference champion team as a senior in 2019-20. Drury finished its season as the no. 1 team in NCAA II.
Diestelkamp graduated from Drury with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a minor in Criminology in 2020 and graduated from SLU with a master’s in Student Personnel Administration in May 2022.
