Cardinal legend Katy Steding and former Virginia Tech assistant Britney Anderson will join Tara VanDerveer and Kate Paye on the bench this season.

Stanford announced Tuesday that Steding and Anderson are filling the seats vacated by Lindy La Rocque, now head coach at UNLV, and Tempie Brown, who is stepping away from coaching to spend time with her family, according to the school's press release.

"The combination of someone with an extensive history with our program and someone with a new and fresh perspective will complement our staff," said VanDerveer in the press release. "Both Katy and Britney have excellent reputations as strong recruiters and relationship builders. I know both will make major contributions to our team's success and will be outstanding representatives of our program. Katy and Britney join an impressive list of assistant coaches we've had on The Farm."

Steding was a program-changing recruit for Stanford and VanDerveer. She led the way to the 1990 national championship and had a Hall of Fame career at Stanford. She has coached at the professional and college level -- most recently was the head coach at Boston University for four seasons and the last two years at the University of San Francisco.

Steding was an assistant at Cal when the Golden Bears reached the Final Four with a 32-4 record. While at Cal her main job responsibilities were recruiting, coaching post players and overseeing the offense.

"It is a unique honor and privilege to join Tara and the rest of the staff at Stanford," said Steding. "I was raised as a Cardinal and I'm so grateful for everyone and everything I've been blessed with since I made that decision. I'm thrilled to come back to The Farm and once again be a part of Stanford Women's Basketball. There's no place like home!"

If Steding takes over Tempie Brown's role coaching the post players she will be taking the baton after an impressive run of success by Stanford's bigs. Brown coached at Stanford for the last seven seasons and during that time there were notable improvements by post players during their careers.

Erica McCall is enjoying a professional career in the WNBA (Indiana) and overseas and she finished her career at Stanford as one of only four players with 1,300 points, 900 rebounds and 200 blocks.

Alanna Smith took off in her last two seasons at Stanford to become an All-American, a first-round pick, and one of the best players in the country her senior season when she averaged 19.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game.

Anderson was a successful player at Virginia Tech and one of its leaders during four seasons in which they reached three NCAA Tournaments and one WNIT. After graduating in 2007 she worked as corporate recruiter for M.C. Dean, Inc. in Dulles, Va., from 2008-13.

During that time frame, Anderson also coached girls' basketball at Potomac Falls High School in Potomac Falls, Va., and in the AAU ranks.

She began her college coaching career in 2013 at Radford and after two years returned to Blacksburg. The Hokies made the postseason each season that Anderson was on the bench, including the WNIT championship game in 2018.

Anderson and Steding join Stanford when the Cardinal have incredible momentum heading into the 2020-2021 season.

The roster is stacked with talent and there is optimism that rising sophomore Haley Jones will be ready for the beginning of the season after missing the last 15 games of last season with an injury. Jones (11.4 PPG, 4.2 REB, 2.4 assists) was emerging as a star for Stanford as she took over more responsibilities on the court as the No. 2 point guard who also could play in the post.

The rest of the "Funky Four", as the 2023 class call themselves, were important contributors as well.

Hannah Jump is already one of the more feared three-point shooters in the conference. Post players Ashten Prechtel and Francesca "Fran" Belibi will likely team up with Steding to compete with Maya Dodson to be starters after the graduation of Nadia Fingall.

Kiana Williams is established as one of the best point guards and shooters in the country and the senior wants to lead Stanford to the Final Four that her home city of San Antonio is scheduled to host.

Lexie Hull (13.6 PPG, 6.0 REB) led the team in rebounding and was one of the best all-around players in the conference. The wing has the potential to become a national name and is an All-American candidate.

Her sister, Lacie, provides a similar skill set and had the third best three-point shooting percentage on the team (35.8 percent).

The incoming freshmen class is headlined by top-five overall recruit Cameron Brink, an elite post player. At 6-4 her length and athleticism makes her a terror protecting the rim and she poses a versatile offensive game.

Point guard Jana Van Gytenbeek will be the understudy of Williams and Jones and Australian Agnes Emma-Nnopu excites VanDerveer because at 6-0 tall she brings a tough rebounding and defensive presence to the wing.