Mary Corbett enters her fifth season at the helm of the Kenyon program after being hired as the Owls head coach in September of 2022. Shortly before the 2026-27 season, Corbett added administrative duties to her resume, after tacking on the title of Assistant Director of Athletics for Community Engagement.
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.
In 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.
Injuries took their toll in 2024-25 as Corbett lost three of five starters and the team went through a 2-22 campaign. One player made the All-NCAC team and a pair made the CSC Academic All-District Team. In 2025-26, the team showed signs of improvement and moved its win total to six games. Three players from that squad were named CSC Academic All-District honorees and one was named to the All-NCAC Team.
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).
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.
