2011 KANSAS STATE WOMEN’S TENNIS
HEAD COACH STEVE BIETAU
STEVE BIETAU Head Coach 27th Year | Doane College, 1979
Kansas State women’s tennis coach Steve Bietau enters his 27th season as coach of the Wildcats. Bietau eclipsed the 200-win plateau in 2006 and his teams have won 231 dual matches in his prior 26 seasons as the leader of the Kansas State program. The continued success of his teams both on and off the court show Bietau’s knowledge and commitment to Kansas State University and the Wildcat tennis program. The 2010 Wildcats carded a 7-13 overall record and a4-7 mark in Big 12 action. The seven wins were the most since the 2008 campaign and the four conference wins were the most since the 2006 season. Bietau guided his squad to the program’s first-ever 7-0 win over Sunflower State rival Kansas and saw his team defeat No. 70 ranked Texas Tech, 5-2, in the regular season home finale. Off the court during the 2010 season, Bietau witnessed three student-athletes earn Academic All-Big 12 first team honors (Petra Chuda, Nina Sertic and Natasha Vieira). The 2008 edition of the Wildcats registered an 8-14 record and tallied an upset win over Nebraska in the Big 12 Championship first round. This is the seventh time in the last nine years and the Wildcats have reached at least the Big 12 Championship quarterfinals. K-State also placed one student-athlete on the All-Big 12 first team (Viviana Yrureta) and three student-athletes on the Academic All-Big 12 first team (Yrureta, Katerina Kudlackova and Natasha Vieira). Bietau’s 2006 squad finished the season 11-10, the eighth season in Bietau’s tenure that the Wildcats finished with a winning record. The 2006 Wildcats went 6-5 in Big 12 competition and finished undefeated in the north division. Kansas State spent the entire season ranked in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) polls and finished the season as the No. 54 team in the nation. During the 2006 season, Alena Jecminkova, who played for Bietau and the Wildcats from 1999 to 2002, was named to the Big 12 Women’s Tennis 10th Anniversary Team. In 2003, the Wildcats had the best season of any Bietau team and posted a school-record 15 victories and a record-tying seven Big 12 wins en route to reaching the round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. K-State upset No. 9 Virginia Commonwealth and No. 16 Northwestern before bowing out to No. 5 USC in the regional semifinals. It marked the third time the Wildcats
THE BIETAU FILE Coaching Experience Kansas State, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1984-present Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College, Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1980-84
Coaching Honors Winningest coach in K-State women’s tennis history 2000 Big 12 Coach of the Year 1996 ITA Central Region Coach of the Year 1989 Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year Three NCAA Tournament appearances (1996, 1998, 2003) Has coached two ITA All-Americans Second-longest tenured coach in school history behind legendary track coach Ward Haylett
Education Doane (Neb.) College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1979
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