Brad Stevens - Personal Life

Personal Life

Brad Stevens is known for his youthful looks, often being described as "baby-faced". One commentator remarked "Stevens looks like he checks the mirror every morning to see if it's time to start shaving." On occasion, he has been mistaken for a player. He is also known for projecting a professional, "corporate" look from the sidelines. Asked what his life would be like if he had never taken up coaching, he replies "If everything else remained the same, I would have been as happy as heck... Friends and family and faith, they're going to take the cake over all this stuff."

Stevens met his wife Tracy (née Wilhelmy) while attending DePauw University. Tracy, who played soccer for DePauw, quickly learned of Brad's love for basketball; on their third date he drove her an hour and a half to attend a high school basketball game. Tracy graduated from Rocky River High School in 1995, and from DePauw in 1999. She returned to school in 2000, driving five hours from Case Western's law school to Indianapolis on weekends to see Brad. She finished her final year of law school in Indianapolis and the couple were married in August 2003. The Stevens live in Indianapolis, with their two children – a four-year-old son, Brady, and a daughter, Kinsley. Tracy works as a labor and employment lawyer.

Brad and Tracy Stevens are involved with the American Cancer Society's Coaches Vs. Cancer. Brad says that the cause really hit home for them after Tracy's mother died of the disease in June 2004. The day before Butler's 2010 Final Four appearance, they hosted a fundraiser for the organization. Brad Stevens has also volunteered his time to the Jukes Foundation for Kids, a charity benefiting Ugandan children run by former Butler player Avery Jukes.

Stevens's father Mark is an orthopedic surgeon in Indianapolis and former Indiana Hoosiers football player. His mother Jan is a university professor. She has previously taught at Butler.