Courtney Deifel

Courtney Deifel

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Arkansas
Conference	SEC
Record	406–192 (.679)
Annual salary	$375,000
Biographical details
Born	(1980-11-24) November 24, 1980 (age 45) Merced, California, U.S.
Education	California
Playing career
2000–2003	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	433–219 (.664)
Tournaments	NCAA: 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
2× SEC Coach of the Year (2021, 2022)

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	27–27	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	NCAA Regional
2018	Arkansas	42–17	12–12	7th	NCAA Super Regional
2019	Arkansas	38–20	12–12	T-6th	NCAA Regional
2020	Arkansas	19–6 [a]	1–2	—	Postseason not held
2021	Arkansas	43–11	19–5	T–1st	NCAA Super Regional
2022	Arkansas	48–11	19–5	1st	NCAA Super Regional
2023	Arkansas	40–19	14–10	4th	NCAA Regional
2024	Arkansas	37–18	14–10	4th	NCAA Regional
2025	Arkansas	44–14	14–10	5th	NCAA Super Regional
2026	Arkansas	47-13	15–9	7th	Women'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.