Courtney Deifel
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamArkansas
ConferenceSEC
Record238–128 (.650)
Biographical details
Born (1980-11-24) November 24, 1980
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
  • 2× 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

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

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

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Maryland (Big Ten Conference) (2015–present)
2015 Maryland 27–279–146th
Maryland: 27–27 (.500)9–14 (.391)
Arkansas (Southeastern Conference) (2016–present)
2016 Arkansas 17–391–2313th
2017 Arkansas 31–247–1712thNorman Regional
2018 Arkansas 42–1712–127thNorman Super Regional
2019 Arkansas 38–2012–12T-6thStillwater Regional
2020 Arkansas 19–6[lower-alpha 1]1–2—Postseason not held
2021 Arkansas 43–1119–5T–1stFayetteville Super Regional
2022 Arkansas 48–1119–51stFayetteville Super Regional
2023 Arkansas 40–1914–104thFayetteville Regional
Arkansas: 278–147 (.654)85–86 (.497)
Total:305–174 (.637)

      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

  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. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Courtney Deifel". arkansasrazorbacks.com. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "2002 CAL STATS". Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  5. ↑ "2020 Golden Bears California Record Book" (PDF). Calbears.com. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  6. ↑ "Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics". Ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-08-10.


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