| Courtney Deifel | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Arkansas |
| Current Conference: | SEC |
| Birth Date: | 24 November 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Merced, California |
| Alma Mater: | California |
| Coach Years1: | 2008–2009 |
| Coach Team1: | Oklahoma (GA) |
| Coach Years2: | 2009–2010 |
| Coach Team2: | Maryland (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 2011–2014 |
| Coach Team3: | Louisville (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 2015 |
| Coach Team4: | Maryland |
| Coach Years5: | 2016–present |
| Coach Team5: | Arkansas |
| Tournament Record: | NCAA: |
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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]
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.
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]