Kory Westerman

Kory Heffentrager

Email:

kheffentrager@cbc.edu
Year:

2
Title:

Senior Women's Leader/Head Women's Basketball Coach
Phone:

501-205-8862

Bio

Coach Heffentrager enters her third season at the helm of the Lady Mustangs in 2026-27.

Year two ended in the AMC Quarterfinals with an 11-16 record. Raigan Head, Lexi Duck and Addison Hudspeth all earned honors from the AMC with Head garnering first team recognition, Duck earning Freshman of the Year, all-freshman team and honorable mention honors and Hudspeth earning a nod on the honorable mention team while Aliya Grotjohn earned All-Tournament team honors. CBC broke the free throw percentage record for the third year in a row and Head broke the single-season records for points, points per game, free throws made and free throw percentage. 11 players earned AMC All-Academic Team recognition with Head, Hudspeth, Riley Whittington and Anslee Ballew all earning CSC Academic All-District honors and Hudspeth, Head and Whittington additionally earning NAIA Scholar Athlete honors.

Her first season resulted in a record of 10-17 overall and 8-14 in the AMC with a return trip to the AMC Tournament. Raigan Head earned AMC third team honors while both Riley Whittington and Addison Hudsepth earned AMC All-Freshman team selections, with Hudspeth also earning a spot on the AMC's All-Tournament Team. Under her guidance, CBC also set a new mark for most three-point field goals made in a season and highest free throw percentage in a single season as well. Additionally, Hudspeth, Head, Whittington, Aliya Grotjohn, Lydia York, Maele Van Houtert, Naciye Oksuz, and Tamara Christmas earned AMC All-Academic Team honors while York, Grotjohn and Head also earned Academic All-District honors from College Sports Communicators and Grotjohn, York, Van Houtert and Oksuz additionally earning Daktronics NAIA Scholar Athlete honors.

"I'm excited to have Kory back on the Lady Mustang coaching staff, this time as the leader of the program," said Middleton. "Kory was a great player and assistant coach during her time at CBC and I feel this is the time for me to pass the torch. This opportunity will allow me to focus on my family, Athletic Director duties, coaching golf and CBC athletics as a whole."

Heffentrager returns to CBC after spending two years as an assistant coach at two different area high schools, Conway Christian and Heber Springs. Prior to that she spent two seasons as the women's basketball assistant at CBC, helping lead the team to a 10-7 record in the Covid shortened 2020-21 season and a 15-16 record in 2021-22, including two AMC Tournament appearances.

"I'm excited to be back," said Heffentrager. "It's truly incredible to be back (at CBC) as the head coach. I'm so thankful for the opportunity to come back. A couple of coaches have texted me and said 'welcome home' and that's the best way to describe it. I met my husband here, I played here for three years and it's just like another home to me. The people are great I'm super excited to be back on campus and get going."

Heffentrager, as a player, was a three-time AMC All-Academic Team selection and a 2017-18 AMC Honorable Mention selection. In 85 career games, she scored 726 points, shot 39 percent from the field (260-666), played in 2,163 minutes (an average of 25.4 per game), made 147 free throws, grabbed 571 rebounds, handed out 160 assists, blocked 35 shots and made 125 steals while recording the only triple-double in program history, scoring 10 points, making 11 steals and grabbing 12 rebounds on Jan. 14, 2020 against Crowley's Ridge. She ranks tied for 10th all-time in games played, seventh in points, tied for sixth in made field goals, eighth in field goals attempted, fifth in minutes, 10th in made free throws, second in total rebounds, first in offensive rebounds, fifth in assists, tied for 10th in blocked shots and third in steals, including a 63 steals season as a senior, fourth most in a season in program history.

HEFFENTRAGER COACHING RECORD