Assistant Coach
Karen Middleton

About Karen  |  Getting to Know Karen

Karen Middleton, a 1991 graduate of the University of South Carolina, is in her fourth season on Tara VanDerveer’s coaching staff. Her primary duties are off-campus recruiting, scheduling and scouting the opposition.

Prior to Stanford, Middleton was an assistant coach at Eastern Washington University. In addition to her time at Eastern, she spent two seasons as an assistant coach at South Carolina, where she played from 1988-91. Middleton has also assisted with USA Basketball National Team Training Camps and USA Basketball Olympic Festival Trials.

A four-year starter at South Carolina, Middleton graduated cum laude in 1991, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education. At South Carolina, she is the sixth-leading scorer in school history with 1,714 career points. She was a two-time GTE Academic All-District selection at South Carolina and participated in the 1989 USA Basketball Olympic Festival in Oklahoma City. In 1993, she earned a Masters of Arts degree in physical education from South Carolina.

Middleton, who was born in Monroe, N.C., graduated from McBee High School in McBee, S.C., where she scored over 2,000 points in her prep career and had her jersey (#20) retired.