Three adult paths in sport and screenwriting

Steve Kerr’s 3 Children: Nick, Maddy and Matthew

The Kerr siblings make a better comparison than a standard “coach’s kids” list. Nick built a long basketball résumé before joining his father’s NBA staff. Maddy became an academic and defensive leader in a different sport. Matthew went to film school and entered comedy television. Their paths overlap through family and competition, but they are not three versions of Steve Kerr.

Official university and league records are unusually detailed here. They allow a current profile to distinguish an active 2026 job from a completed college career and from work that has been publicly credited—without leaning on LinkedIn excerpts or letting an old age become a false birth date.

Steve Kerr’s children at a glance

Only Nick’s complete birth date is published in a first-party athletics record. Maddy was 21 in a Berkeley interview on 2 June 2016, and Matthew was 23 in an October 2021 San Francisco Chronicle profile. Those dated ages support approximate birth years, not invented exact birthdays.

Who are their parents?

The siblings’ parents are Steve Kerr and Margot Brennan Kerr. Steve met Margot while both were students at the University of Arizona, where he played basketball and she was a classmate. They married in 1990, before Steve’s NBA career took the family through several cities.

Steve won five championships as an NBA player, worked in broadcasting and as a front-office executive, then became Golden State’s head coach in 2014. In July 2026, the Warriors announced a new two-year contract keeping him in the role. Margot has generally kept a lower public profile, although the children consistently name both parents when describing the family.

Their upbringing involved professional sport, but also frequent moves and a wider family history. Steve’s father Malcolm Kerr was president of the American University of Beirut and was killed in 1984. Steve has often connected that loss to his view of public life and leadership. It is relevant family context, but not a shortcut for assigning the same motivations to his children.

Nick Kerr: from college guard to Warriors assistant coach

Nick Kerr was born on 9 November 1992 in Cleveland, Ohio. The University of San Diego’s official roster records him as a 6ft 3in guard who majored in business administration. He earned academic recognition and played four seasons for the Toreros, including a career-high 12-point college game.

Nick’s career did not jump directly from “coach’s son” to an NBA bench. After San Diego, he completed a master’s degree in public health at UC Berkeley and served as a graduate assistant with the Golden Bears. He then worked in video and player development for the San Antonio Spurs, Golden State and the Warriors’ G League affiliate in Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz appointed him head coach in August 2023 after two seasons as an assistant there. The NBA Coaches Association records that he held the head role through 2025, then became a Golden State Warriors assistant coach. He now works on the same staff his father leads.

The family connection is obvious and should be disclosed, not used as a substitute for the record. His documented path includes college playing, graduate study, video operations, player development, G League assisting and two seasons as a G League head coach before the NBA assistant role.

Madeleine “Maddy” Kerr: Cal volleyball captain and scholar

Maddy Kerr is Steve and Margot’s daughter and their middle child. She enrolled at UC Berkeley in 2013 and became the California Golden Bears’ libero, the defensive specialist in a contrasting jersey who receives attacks and organises play from the back court.

Her official Cal profile records 459 digs in 2015—the ninth-best single-season total in school history at the time—and 1,351 career digs after her junior year, then fifth in Cal history. She earned Pac-12 All-Academic First Team recognition and previously won the team’s Golden Bear Achievement Award for its top grade-point average.

By her 2016 senior year, Berkeley described her as a three-year team captain. She double-majored in media studies and rhetoric, demonstrating a record that combined elite college sport with demanding academic work. Her own Q&A presents the family as close-knit while making clear that each sibling had a separate direction.

Some current family profiles assign Maddy a post-college job from social or professional-network excerpts. There is no equally strong, current first-party record supporting one permanent description in 2026. The accurate public biography is already substantial: Cal captain, high-achieving student and one of the programme’s leading defensive players.

Matthew Kerr: comedy and television writing

Matthew is the youngest Kerr sibling. In a 2021 San Francisco Chronicle interview, he was 23 and described the arts as his direction from childhood. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2020, choosing screenwriting over the competitive sports routes followed by his older siblings.

The Chronicle reported that Matthew had worked as a writing assistant on the second season of Apple TV+ comedy Ted Lasso. The distinction matters: a writing assistant supports a writers’ room and production process; it is not the same credit as authoring every episode. The experience nevertheless placed him inside one of television’s most prominent comedy teams early in his career.

USC’s 2024 alumni record later identified Matthew Kerr ’20 as a writer on the second season of the animated comedy Clone High. That provides a direct institution-backed credit beyond the original profile.

He has also performed stand-up and developed comedy material. Basketball still supplies family stories and subject matter, but his work is in creating scripts and jokes rather than coaching rotations or playing results.

How the Kerr siblings’ paths compare

The comparison shows why “all three followed their father” is too broad. Nick did enter basketball coaching. Maddy shared the discipline of high-level team sport but not the sport itself. Matthew took the family’s humour and stories into an unrelated professional craft.

It also corrects a subtler comparison error: a current job, a completed college record and a credited writing project are different kinds of evidence. Keeping those categories separate makes the table useful without pretending that three uneven public records can be ranked on one career ladder.

What the children have said about Steve Kerr as a father

When Golden State hired Steve in 2014, a San Francisco Chronicle family feature interviewed all three children. Nick discussed coaching and competitiveness; Maddy described a parent whose leadership style made sense to the family; Matthew, then in high school, was already identified with theatre and the arts.

Maddy’s 2016 Berkeley Q&A adds texture. She described her father teaching by example and her mother creating the family’s structure while Steve travelled for professional basketball. She also saw both the excitement and the stress of a public playoff run from a daughter’s perspective.

These first-person accounts are more valuable than labels such as “sports dynasty”. They show family influence without erasing differences. Steve’s work made professional basketball familiar, but the children still chose different universities, subjects and occupations.

Do Steve and Nick Kerr coach the same team?

Yes. Since 2025, both have coached the Golden State Warriors: Steve as head coach and Nick as an assistant. The NBA Coaches Association explicitly lists Nick’s assistant-coaching tenure as 2025–present under Steve.

Before that promotion, Nick spent two seasons leading the Santa Cruz Warriors, Golden State’s G League affiliate. G League head coaching involves its own roster, staff, schedule and player-development responsibilities, even though the organisation feeds into the parent NBA club.

The shared bench inevitably attracts scrutiny. The clearest way to evaluate the arrangement is to name both facts: Nick is the head coach’s son, and he arrived after more than a decade of documented playing, study, video, development and coaching work. Readers can assess the appointment without either concealing the relationship or pretending the résumé does not exist.

The Kerr family career timeline

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Questions people ask about Steve Kerr’s children

How many children does Steve Kerr have?

Steve Kerr and his wife Margot have three adult children: sons Nick and Matthew and daughter Madeleine, who is usually called Maddy.

Who is Steve Kerr’s oldest child?

Nick Kerr is the oldest. The University of San Diego records his birth date as 9 November 1992 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Does Steve Kerr’s son coach the Warriors?

Yes. Nick Kerr became a Golden State Warriors assistant coach in 2025 after two seasons as head coach of the Santa Cruz Warriors in the NBA G League.

What sport did Maddy Kerr play?

Maddy Kerr played college volleyball for the California Golden Bears. She was a libero, three-year captain, academic honouree and one of Cal’s leading career diggers.

What does Matthew Kerr do?

Matthew Kerr works in comedy and television writing. He graduated from USC in 2020, worked with the Ted Lasso writing team and has a writing credit connected to Clone High.

Who is Steve Kerr’s wife?

Steve Kerr’s wife is Margot Brennan Kerr. They met at the University of Arizona and married in 1990.

Sources and further reading

1. University of San Diego Athletics: Nick Kerr’s official player biography and birth date.
2. Santa Cruz Warriors: Nicholas Kerr’s 2023 head-coach appointment and career history.
3. NBA Coaches Association: Nick Kerr’s current Golden State assistant-coach profile.
4. Cal Athletics: Maddy Kerr’s volleyball records, honours and academic subjects.
5. Berkeley News: first-person Q&A with Maddy Kerr about sport, study and family.
6. San Francisco Chronicle: Matthew Kerr’s comedy, USC and Ted Lasso path.
7. USC School of Cinematic Arts: Matthew Kerr’s Clone High alumni credit.
8. SFGate: 2014 interviews with Nick, Maddy and Matthew about Steve Kerr.
9. NBA: Steve Kerr’s July 2026 contract to remain Golden State head coach.
10. NBA team directory: Golden State’s current coaching staff, including Nick Kerr.

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By Kristine Bowman and KidsCo Editorial Team

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