Hailey Diestelkamp joined USI Women's Basketball and Head Coach Rick Stein's coaching staff in June 2024.
Diestelkamp helped lead the Screaming Eagles to a strong season 2024-25. Southern Indiana captured 23 wins overall and 12 OVC wins. USI reached at least the semifinals of the OVC tournament for the second straight year. Plus, Southern Indiana made a second consecutive appearance in the WNIT in 2024-25, reaching the Super Sixteen round for the first time.
Before coming to USI, Diestelkamp was the Director of Basketball Operations for Missouri State University Women's Basketball for two seasons under the direction of head coach Beth Cunningham.
Prior to Missouri State, Diestelkamp served as a graduate assistant for the Saint Louis University Billikens. While at SLU, Diestelkamp assisted with game-day preparation, player development, setting up community service activities, and coordinating post game and travel meals.
Before entering into the coaching realm, Diestelkamp had a decorated playing career at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. In her career at Drury, the Lady Panthers owned a 128-8 record and her jersey is now retired after she ended her career as the team’s all-time leading scorer (2,321) and rebounder (1,101).
Diestelkamp was a two-time NCAA Division II Player of the Year, a two-time First Team All-American, a two-time GLVC Player of the Year and was named the GLVC Freshman of the Year in 2016-17.
The Owensville, Mo., native averaged 21.6 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.8 steals, while shooting .522 from the field for an undefeated (32-0) Great Lakes Valley Conference champion team as a senior in 2019-20. Drury finished its season as the number one team in NCAA-II.
Diestelkamp graduated from Drury with her bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Criminology in 2020, and graduated from SLU with a master’s in Student Personnel Administration in May 2022.
