Coach Becky Terry Stevens has spent over 25 years in sports in various capacities including playing basketball and running track both at the High School and College level. She has been a coach, athletic trainer and official in various cities and states including Atlanta, Boston, Ohio, South Carolina and Michigan.
As a player, Becky was selected to compete on an American basketball team made up of 11 AAU players from New York and Florida. This was a European tour, competing against professional women's "clubs" overseas. They played in England, Denmark, Sweden, Stockholm and other cities and finished the competition winning with first place honors.
As a player, Becky trained extensively with Bob McKillop the 5 time New York State championship coach of the Long Island Lutheran High School boys basketball team. During the summers, Mrs. Stevens worked, as well as attended clinics with future NBA All Star Mark Jackson, future NBA player of the Champion Chicago Bulls Bill Wennington and future NBA hall of famer Chris Mullin.
At LuHi Becky was a High School All American in basketball, and a recipient of the "Who's Who" award for her sports and academic achievements. She was highly recruited at schools across the nation including Harvard, UCLA, and West Virginia but at the request of her parents (the only girl with six brothers), she decided to go to a Christian College that was within driving distance where she studied music ministry and played basketball while majoring in pre-med and minoring in psychology. However, due to her father's sudden illness, and his eventual passing away at the age of 45, she returned back to Long Island to be closer to her family and help out at home.
Coach Stevens continued her studies at Queens College studying physical therapy/sports medicine. Becky eventually went on to work as an athletic trainner at several colleges in New York and South Carolina, as well as worked in physical therapy in rehab facilities, specializing in spinal cord injuries, head, neurological and CVA injuries. This also included work with replacement surgery patients. For a time, Becky also worked with the personal trainer/scout for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.
In 2009-2010 Coach Stevens became the girl's head basketball coach and track coach at Upper Room Christian School. She will continue those duties, in addition to assuming the role as the Athletic Director.
Becky's greatest asset was coming to Christ at an early age and maintaining a passionate relationship with her Lord! She has for many years served as a youth leader and counselor/teacher, praise and worship leader and choir member/director. She's proud to be married to her husband Mike Stevens for almost 25 years and adores their 5 children.
Coach Stevens enjoys not only teaching sports, but by serving others, helping to develop charecter in the players and believes in keeping the "I" out of TEAM. She calls this promotion to Athletic Director "...an honor and privilege", and looks forward to the future here at Upper Room.
Friday, August 26, 2011
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