Courtney Deifel
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Arkansas |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 238–128 (.650) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | November 24, 1980 Merced, California |
| Alma mater | California |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2008–2009 | Oklahoma (GA) |
| 2009–2010 | Maryland (assistant) |
| 2011–2014 | Louisville (assistant) |
| 2015 | Maryland |
| 2016–present | Arkansas |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 265–155 (.631) |
| Tournaments | NCAA: 10–10 (.500) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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| Awards | |
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Courtney Scott Deifel (born Courtney Lynn Scott; November 24, 1980)[1] is an American former collegiate softball catcher and current head coach at Arkansas.[2][3]
Personal
[edit]Deifel graduated from the University of California in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in American Business and Globalism and American Studies. She earned her master's of arts in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma in 2008 while she was a graduate assistant with the Sooners softball team. Deifel's sister, Amanda Scott, is currently the head softball coach at Missouri-St. Louis and won a Women's College World Series title at Fresno State in 1998.
Deifel and her husband, Joe, are the parents of two sons, Trip and Walt.
Career
[edit]Deifel played college softball for the California Golden Bears from 2000 to 2003, winning a national championship in 2002 and batting .263 (218/827) with 13 home runs and 127 RBIs for her career.[4][5][6]
Head coaching record
[edit]| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland (Big Ten Conference) (2015–present) | |||||||||
| 2015 | Maryland | 27–27 | 9–14 | 6th | |||||
| Maryland: | 27–27 (.500) | 9–14 (.391) | |||||||
| Arkansas (Southeastern Conference) (2016–present) | |||||||||
| 2016 | Arkansas | 17–39 | 1–23 | 13th | |||||
| 2017 | Arkansas | 31–24 | 7–17 | 12th | Norman Regional | ||||
| 2018 | Arkansas | 42–17 | 12–12 | 7th | Norman Super Regional | ||||
| 2019 | Arkansas | 38–20 | 12–12 | T-6th | Stillwater Regional | ||||
| 2020 | Arkansas | 19–6[a] | 1–2 | — | Postseason not held | ||||
| 2021 | Arkansas | 43–11 | 19–5 | T–1st | Fayetteville Super Regional | ||||
| 2022 | Arkansas | 48–11 | 19–5 | 1st | Fayetteville Super Regional | ||||
| 2023 | Arkansas | 40–19 | 14–10 | 4th | Fayetteville Regional | ||||
| 2024 | Arkansas | 37–18 | 14–10 | 4th | Fayetteville Regional | ||||
| Arkansas: | 315–165 (.656) | 99–96 (.508) | |||||||
| Total: | 342–192 (.640) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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- ^ The season was not played past March 10 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
[edit]- ^ "Courtney Scott". CalBears.com. University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on August 5, 2003. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
- ^ "Arkansas softball coach Courtney Deifel began coaching career at Oklahoma". The Oklahoman. April 5, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
- ^ "Courtney Deifel". arkansasrazorbacks.com. June 11, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
- ^ "2002 CAL STATS". Ncaa.org. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ "2020 Golden Bears California Record Book" (PDF). Calbears.com. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ "Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics". Ncaa.org. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
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