Steve retired as girls head coach at the end of the 2008 season, after 33 years of coaching at the former TC Williams High School, but will stay on as rigger and substitute coach.

Steve began rowing lightweight 8 at F.C. Hammond High School in 1968, and coxed the Championship junior four at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta that year.

He began coaching at the former TC Williams in 1975, Dee Campbell’s first year as head coach for the TC Girls' Crew Team.  He started coaching the lightweight women’s team in 1978, and became the head women’s coach in 1994. His crews won 12 Stotesbury Cup and SRAA Championships and five Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association Championships.

The trophy for the Women’s Lightweight Eight at Stotesbury Cup Regatta is named “The Steven T. Weir Cup”