Beth Stedelin is a 1986 graduate of Centralia High School where she was a standout athlete in tennis and softball.  She attended and graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1993 with an economics and accounting degree.  She later graduated Law School from SIUC in 1997 and passed the bar the same year. Beth attended the Nick Bolletiers Tennis Academy in Florida as a grade school student and was also coached at one time by Coach Bennie Purcell of Murray State University.