The 2016 season will be Sara Schoenhoft’s third as a member of the Ladies coaching staff. A 2007 Kenyon graduate and former Ladies softball player, Schoenhoft returned to Kenyon after spending the last three years as head coach of the Emory and Henry College Wasps.
During her playing years at Kenyon, Schoenhoft was a part of a few memorable moments in the program’s youthful stages. She played on the 2004 team which collected the program’s first winning season (17-15, 8-6 NCAC) and as a junior, she was a part of a Kenyon team that won the program’s first postseason game, a 1-0 victory over Wittenberg University in the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.
After her four-year career, Schoenhoft found herself in multiple top-10 categories in the Kenyon record book. She hit 12 home runs (fourth), 30 doubles (eighth), had 70 runs batted in (sixth), scored 48 runs, had a slugging percentage of .490 (seventh), and hit .310 over four years. She also has the second-highest career fielding percentage (.983) and putout total (536) in Ladies' history.
In 2010, Schoenhoft began her collegiate coaching career and spent two years in Massachusetts as an assistant coach at Amherst College (2010) and Western New England College (2011). From there, Schoenhoft was named the head coach at NCAA Division III Emory and Henry College, where she helped the Wasps increase their team home run total from 12 to 46 and added nearly 20 points to her team’s batting average and fielding percentage. In 2013, she helped Emory and Henry place two players on the All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference team, one on the Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District V Team, and one on the NFCA All-Atlantic Region Team.
Schoenhoft graduated from Kenyon with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She completed a postgraduate program from Smith College, where she holds a master’s degree in Exercise and Sports Studies. She also holds certification with the NSCA as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist and is a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA), Alliance of Women Coaches, and a graduate of the Women’s Coaches Academy.
