Road to Duke
Steven Michael Wojciechowski — pronounced woe-ju-HOW-skee, and known to everyone as Wojo — was born August 11, 1976, in Severna Park, Maryland. He was a first-generation college student. He attended Cardinal Gibbons School in Baltimore, where he played under Baltimore Catholic League head coach Ray Mullis and became one of the top high school point guards in the country. He was named to the 1994 McDonald’s All-American Team, playing against future Duke teammates Trajan Langdon and Ricky Price in the game.
He chose Duke. At 5-foot-11, he was never the most physically gifted player on the floor. But he played with a ferocity that bordered on possession. Dean Smith once expressed his admiration and reminded UNC fans — who had mocked Wojciechowski — that there was a reason he had wanted Wojo in Carolina Blue.
At Duke
Wojciechowski spent four seasons at Duke from 1994 to 1998, appearing in 128 games and starting 88. He was the engine of the Blue Devils’ backcourt: relentless on defense, an orchestrator on offense, and the emotional heartbeat of every team he played on. He ranks eighth in Duke history in both career assists (505) and career steals (203). His 82 steals in the 1997 season is the second-highest single-season total in program history.
His senior season in 1997–98 was the culmination. He was team captain, leading Duke to a 32–4 record and a No. 1 ranking in the final AP regular season poll. The Blue Devils reached the South Regional final, where they lost to eventual national champion Kentucky 86–84 — a heartbreaker that came down to the final possessions. Wojciechowski was named the 1998 NABC Defensive Player of the Year, the highest individual honor of his career. He earned Second-Team All-ACC as a junior and Third-Team All-ACC as a senior, and was an Honorable Mention All-American.
He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1998. After graduation, he played professional basketball in Poland for one year before realizing his future was on the sideline, not the court.
After Duke
Wojciechowski returned to Duke in 1999, initially working in a business role and helping with Duke basketball radio broadcasts before Krzyzewski offered him a coaching position. He became an assistant coach and was promoted to associate head coach in 2008. Over 14 seasons on the Duke bench, his record as part of the coaching staff was 441–92. He primarily coached the frontcourt, and two of his players — Shane Battier and Shelden Williams — won the NABC National Defensive Player of the Year. Others who developed under his guidance include Carlos Boozer, Josh McRoberts, Jabari Parker, Mason Plumlee, Miles Plumlee, Rodney Hood, and Lance Thomas. The Blue Devils won NCAA championships in 2001 and 2010 during his tenure.
He also served as a court coach and scout for USA Basketball from 2006 to 2014, helping lead the U.S. to Olympic gold medals in Beijing (2008) and London (2012), working alongside LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Marquette alumnus Dwyane Wade.
On April 1, 2014, Marquette hired Wojciechowski as its 17th head coach, replacing Buzz Williams. He established his ‘Win Every Day’ philosophy and assembled nationally ranked recruiting classes. His best season was 2018–19, when Marquette went 24–10 and qualified for the NCAA Tournament. But in seven seasons, he compiled a 124–93 record with two NCAA Tournament appearances and zero tournament victories. With no Big East titles and an 0–2 NCAA Tournament record, Marquette fired him at the conclusion of the 2020–21 season.
A former Duke assistant, Chris Carrawell, who coached alongside Wojo at Marquette, once asked him whether he wanted to win Friday’s practice or Saturday’s game — a comment about the intensity Wojo brought every single day. It was both his greatest strength and, perhaps, his limitation as a head coach.
Where Is He Now
After being fired from Marquette, Wojciechowski and his wife Lindsay — a Utah native — moved to Park City, Utah. He took time away from basketball. He has joked that he briefly considered teaching hot yoga. But Wojo is a lifer. In June 2023, he was named head coach of the Salt Lake City Stars, the Utah Jazz’s G League affiliate. He compiled a 41–17 record over two seasons, led the Stars to consecutive playoff appearances, and secured the franchise’s first-ever playoff victory on April 1, 2025, over the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
On June 6, 2025, Jazz head coach Will Hardy announced that Wojciechowski would join the Jazz coaching staff as a full-time assistant for the 2025–26 NBA season. Hardy called him ‘an incredible teacher.’ Wojo is now an NBA assistant coach at age 49, following the same G-League-to-NBA pipeline that Quin Snyder — another Duke point guard — traveled before him.
Wojciechowski lives in Park City with Lindsay and their two sons, Jack and Charlie. His coaching record spans Duke, Marquette, the G League, and now the NBA — a career built on the same relentless intensity he brought to every Duke game as a 5-foot-11 point guard who Dean Smith wanted at North Carolina. His story is the Brotherhood’s purest coaching arc: the player who never had the body but always had the fire, who spent 20 years under Krzyzewski and is now building his own legacy, one level at a time.
Duke’s Brotherhood: Where Are They Now? • Profile • March 2026