Coach Courtney Hoffman
Courtney Hoffman is the softball and girls basketball coach at Olympia High School. She moved into the Olympia district in 2015, and only coached basketball her first year at the school. Since then, she has been a two-sport coach and is leaving an impact throughout our community. Hoffman is a PE teacher at Olympia High School. She is also the head coach of the 12u Oly Fire Softball team that her daughter Finley plays on.
Hoffman was a Williamsville High School graduate in 2002. She was a three-sport athlete there. At Williamsville, Hoffman learned the lesson of leaving an impact on your players from a coach she was very close with. Pam Allen, Hoffman’s mother, was the volleyball and softball coach at Williamsville high school. Hoffman stated, “I liked playing for her, we made sure we kept everything separate. She was my mom at home and my coach on the field or in the gym. She coaches similar to how I coach now, I learned a lot from her.”
Pam Allen built a tradition of success for girls sports at Williamsville. Hoffman saw what her mom built and is working to do the same for girls sports at Olympia. In Hoffman’s first year coaching basketball at Olympia their goal was to win three games. Only three. They had to start somewhere, and it has been only up since then. In 2020, Hoffman coached the girls basketball team that broke the school record for wins in a single season. She has also seen success on the softball field. Although Olympia has a rich history in softball, Hoffman has still worked to set the expectations higher and higher every year for her softball team. In 2019, Olympia Softball brought home a 4th place trophy from the state tournament.
Hoffman not only took the lessons from her mom to her coaching career, but she also took them to her collegiate athletic career. She was a two-sport athlete at Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL. She played basketball, where she played as a forward, and softball, where she was a shortstop. Hoffman ended her college basketball career with 1,102 points along with two All-Midwest Conference selections.
As a coach, Hoffman strives to leave the following impact on her players: “To have pride in themselves and what they are doing. To always do the little things right and have good character.”
