Carrie Hoeft

Carrie Hoeft begins her first season as the head coach of the Spartans during the 2022-23 academic year after serving as an assistant coach the two previous seasons. Hoeft served as assistant coach for the Norfolk State softball program during the 2021-22 academic year. She spent the 2021 season as a volunteer assistant before being hired for the full-time role.

She is no stranger to softball in the Hampton Roads area, having run a softball and baseball academy in her hometown of Chesapeake for more than 15 years in addition to serving as head coach at Paul D. Camp Community College.

Hoeft joined NSU for the 2021 season, serving as the third base coach and assisting with all facets of on-field coaching as a volunteer assistant. She helped guide the program during the early part of the season when head coach James Inzana missed time due to illness.

With Hoeft on board, the Spartans posted a 20-19 overall record, 12-7 in the MEAC. NSU finished second in the Northern Division to advance to the MEAC Tournament. Six players earned all-conference honors as the program posted the fifth overall winning record in its Division I era.

Prior to her volunteer stint with NSU, she served as head coach at Camp CC in 2019 and 2020, helping to start the program during its first two years at the school. The Hurricanes made the conference tournament in their inaugural season in 2019. She coached five all-region players in her two years there, including Region X Player of the Year and All-American Morgan Owens.

As part of the program start-up, Hoeft assisted with field selection and renovation, helped design and purchase equipment and uniform, recruited for the first seasons, and developed the budget and scholarship program while establishing fundraising goals.

She served as athletics director at Camp CC for the 2019-20 academic year, overseeing the budget, scheduling, travel, recruiting, fundraising, compliance, and the actual staff for the school’s athletics teams. Hoeft also served as an academic advisor during her two years there, helping students meet educational goals through academic scheduling and degree requirements. She advised students on specific programs and worked with at-risk students to improve their academic success.

Prior to her time at Camp CC, Hoeft was an assistant coach at Stratford University in Newport News for the 2018 season. She assisted in all aspects of the softball program, including workouts, practices and gamedays in addition to field maintenance, student-athlete recruitment and registration, and mental and social skills development.

Hoeft served as a softball instructor, strength coach and manager at the Grand Slam 2 Baseball and Softball Academy in Chesapeake from January 2003 through the summer of 2018. She implemented conditioning and weight-lifting workouts in addition to coaching players on their softball skills. As manager, she served as the accountant for the academy, tracked and sold inventory, trained staff, and ran the general day-to-day operations.

She also started up the Tidewater Bomber AAU softball program in 2003 and served as the head coach of the program for nearly nine years until the summer of 2012.

A member of the softball team at Virginia State, Hoeft earned her bachelor’s in physical education from VSU in December of 2007 as well as her master’s in sport management from Liberty in May of 2020. She attended high school at both Great Bridge and Hickory high schools in Chesapeake and is currently working toward her doctorate in strategic leadership from Liberty.

Hoeft resides in Chesapeake with her husband and their daughter and two sons.