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Courtney Deifel

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Courtney Deifel
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamArkansas
ConferenceSEC
Record238–128 (.650)
Biographical details
Born (1980-11-24) November 24, 1980 (age 43)
Merced, California
Alma materCalifornia
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2008–2009Oklahoma (GA)
2009–2010Maryland (assistant)
2011–2014Louisville (assistant)
2015Maryland
2016–presentArkansas
Head coaching record
Overall265–155 (.631)
TournamentsNCAA: 10–10 (.500)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • SEC Regular Season Champions (2021, 2022)
  • SEC Tournament Champions (2022)
Awards

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

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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

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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

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Statistics overview
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)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

  1. ^ The season was not played past March 10 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

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  1. ^ "Courtney Scott". CalBears.com. University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on August 5, 2003. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  2. ^ "Arkansas softball coach Courtney Deifel began coaching career at Oklahoma". The Oklahoman. April 5, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  3. ^ "Courtney Deifel". arkansasrazorbacks.com. June 11, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  4. ^ "2002 CAL STATS". Ncaa.org. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  5. ^ "2020 Golden Bears California Record Book" (PDF). Calbears.com. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  6. ^ "Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics". Ncaa.org. Retrieved August 10, 2021.