Kate Popovec is the head coach of the women’s basketball team at Bradley University, a role she starting in 2022.
Kate began her collegiate coaching career as Director of Women's Basketball Operations at La Salle University for the 2013-14 season. She returned to Northwestern the following season for a 2-year stint as Director of Player Development for the Wildcats.
Northwestern received an at-large selection to the 2015 NCAA Tournament, its first appearance in the Big Dance since 1997. Kate earned her first on-court coaching position at Colgate for the 2016-17 season, before joining the Northwestern bench in 2017.
As a Northwestern student-athlete, Kate earned Academic All-Big Ten honors in each of her two seasons with the Wildcats after starting her career at Pittsburg.
She was chosen as Northwestern's female recipient of the 2013 Big Ten Outstanding Sportsmanship Award and she was named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar following the 2012-13 season.
Kate is a native of Canfield, Ohio, and she earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern.