Steve Kinder (born c. 1963) is a former head basketball coach of the Humboldt State University Lumberjacks.
in physical education from HSU in 1985 when he also played for the basketball team that won the California Collegiate Athletic Association that year.
He returned to Humboldt where he served as an assistant to basketball coach Tom Wood from 1990 to 2010.
[1] In his first year as head coach in the 2010-11 season the Lumberjacks went 26-4, won the CCAA title and appeared in the NCAA playoffs.
He received the first Clarence Gaines Award for the nation's best Division II basketball coach in 2011.