Courtney Deifel

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Courtney Deifel
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamArkansas
ConferenceSEC
Record406–192 (.679)
Annual salary$375,000
Biographical details
Born (1980-11-24) November 24, 1980
Merced, California, U.S.
Alma materCalifornia
Playing career
2000–2003California
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2008–2009Oklahoma (GA)
2009–2010Maryland (assistant)
2011–2014Louisville (assistant)
2015Maryland
2016–presentArkansas
Head coaching record
Overall433–219 (.664)
TournamentsNCAA: 22–18 (.550)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • NCAA Super Regional Championship (2026)
  • 5× NCAA Regional Championships (2018, 2021, 2022, 2025, 2026)
  • 2× SEC Regular Season Champions (2021, 2022)
  • SEC tournament (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, Berkeley in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Business and Globalism and American Studies. She earned her Master of Arts degree 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

Record table
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 31–247–1712thNCAA Regional
2018 Arkansas 42–1712–127thNCAA Super Regional
2019 Arkansas 38–2012–12T-6thNCAA Regional
2020 Arkansas 19–6[a]1–2—Postseason not held
2021 Arkansas 43–1119–5T–1stNCAA Super Regional
2022 Arkansas 48–1119–51stNCAA Super Regional
2023 Arkansas 40–1914–104thNCAA Regional
2024 Arkansas 37–1814–104thNCAA Regional
2025 Arkansas 44–1414–105thNCAA Super Regional
2026 Arkansas 47-1315–97thWomen's College World Series
Arkansas: 406–192 (.679)128–115 (.527)
Total:433–219 (.664)

      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. 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.