Stiebing is starting his third season as special assistant to Lions men’s basketball head coach Jay Ladner in 2017-18.
In 2016-17, Stiebing helped Southeastern achieve a 4 1/2-game bump from the previous season as the Lions won 16 games and had their first winning regular season since 2010-11.
Working with the Southeastern post players, Stiebing helped senior Dominic Nelson become one of the top defensive presences in the Southland. Nelson blocked 62 shots, tied for third-most in a season, as a Lion, while also grabbing 6.4 rebounds per game. Junior James Currington averaged 8.7 points and 6.7 rebounds after coming back from an injury. And sophomore Moses Greenwood poured in 11.3 points while averaging 6.0 rebounds.
In his first season with the Lions in 2015-16, the squad won 12 games, an improvement of four wins from the prior season.
Stiebing has a wealth of coaching experience, from the high school and college level to the professional and international game. Prior to Southeastern, he coached the Al-Sharjah Basketball Club in Sharjah, UAE in 2014-15, leading the team to the playoffs with a 13-12 record. In June of 2014, he was the featured speaker at the FIBA Coaching Clinic in Kuwait.
Stiebing coached the Sichuan Jingiang Blue Whales of Wenjiang, China to China’s National Basketball League championship in 2012-13. He also coached the Blue Whales in 2010-11, finishing with a 39-14 record. Sichuan Jingiang qualified for the NBL playoffs both seasons, the first time the Blue Whales had made the playoffs in 12 seasons. Sichuan Jingiang became the first team from the Sichuan Province in 51 years to win the regular season title in 2010 and set a league record with 13 straight wins. The Blue Whales also finished third in 2011 with an 11-7 record.
In between those stints with Sichuan Jingiang, Stiebing coached the CBA Fujian SBS Sturgeons of JinJiang, China, leading the team to the playoffs with a 17-15 record. The nine-game improvement from the previous season was the best in the league.
Stiebing was an assistant coach at Loyola University of New Orleans from 2007-10. During those seasons, Loyola enjoyed its first winning season since 1994-95, its first back to back winning seasons since 1970-72, its first winning conference record since joining the GCAC and its most wins in a season since 1947-48. He helped institute the Triangle offense and secondary break and helped the Wolfpack improve their field goal percentage and points per game each season.
Stiebing recorded a 125-60 record as head coach of the Qatar National Team from 2003-07. Qatar was the Arabian Gulf champions and the silver medalist at the Asian Games in 2006. In 2005, Qatar won the West Asian championship for the first time and also qualified for the FIBA World Championships for the first time after finishing third at the Asian Championships. The squad won both the Stankovic Asian Cup title and the Arabian Gulf championship in 2004. Qatar also recorded its highest finish at the 2003 FIBA Asian Championships, taking third.
Stiebing was the men’s basketball head coach at the University of New Orleans from 1997-2001, finishing with a 57-58 record. He was the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year in 2000-01 after leading the Privateers to a second-place finish in the West Division. He also recruited and coached two All-Sun Belt performers, the Sun Belt Freshman of the Year in 1997-98 and the league’s leading scorer that season.
Stiebing had been an assistant coach at UNO from 1990-97 during which the Privateers went 150-62, won four regular season and one conference tournament titles, reached the postseason five times (three NCAA, two NIT) and won 20 or more games six times, including five straight seasons. He recruited and coached eight All-Sun Belt performers, including two league MVPs, and the 1996 and ’97 Sun Belt Newcomer of the Year.
Stiebing started his head coaching career at Archbishop Shaw High School in Marrero, La. where he went 109-45 from 1986-90. He led Shaw to the 1988-89 state and district championships. His 1989-90 squad defeated the Russian Junior National Team 73-60 and went on to win a LHSAA Class 4A record 30 games for the third straight season. The 1986-87 team set a team record for district wins and became the first in school history to qualify for the playoffs the following season. Stiebing also coached seven players who went on to play college basketball.
Stiebing was an assistant coach at Shaw from 1985-86 after serving as a student assistant under Dale Brown at LSU from 1982-84.
Stiebing received a Master of Education degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of New Orleans in December 1996. He had received a Bachelor of Science in distributive education with a minor in business education from Louisiana State University in August 1985. He graduated from Archbishop Rummel High School in Metairie, La. in May 1979. He played for two state championships while at Rummel.
