Mary Corbett enters her third season at the helm of the Kenyon program after being hired as the Owls head coach in September of 2022.
In her first season, the Owls compiled an 8-18 overall record and finished with a 4-10 mark in the North Coast Athletic Conference. Kenyon secured the No. 6 seed in the NCAC Tournament, but the Owls fell to No. 3-seeded Ohio Wesleyan University in the quarterfinal round. Corbett coached one All-NCAC performer in her inaugural season, and the Owls earned a WBCA Special Mention for their performance in the classroom.
Last season, the 2023-24 campaign, the team operated with a short-handed roster and the lack of depth resulted in a 3-23 record. The Owls were still able to make the NCAC Tournament, but, like the subsequent season, they fell in the first round of play. Four players were named CSC Academic All-District honorees and the garnered a WBCA special mention for academic excellence. Â
Before Kenyon, Corbett spent the previous three years at NCAA Division III Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. While at Otterbein, she served as the lead assistant coach during a span in which the Cardinals posted a combined 38-26 record, including last season's 18-7 mark that was coupled with a fourth-place finish in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC).Â
Corbett recruited and helped develop the 2021 OAC Freshman of the Year, five All-OAC honorees, six Academic All-OAC student-athletes and a winner of the 2020 OAC Clyde Lamb Award, given to the conference's top basketball student-athletes.
Corbett is a 2015 Otterbein graduate. She transferred there after two seasons at nearby Ohio Wesleyan University. She earned four letters throughout her playing days, was named Otterbein's team captain as a senior, averaged 10 points per game, and set the program's record for single-season free throw percentage.
Following her graduation, Corbett went to work, for one season, as a women's basketball intern at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. The following year, she returned to Otterbein to serve as a graduate assistant while earning her master's degree in business administration. The team registered a combined 28-25 record over those two years.
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