Mary VandeHoef served as Interim Assistant to the Athletic Directors from September 2022 through May 2023.
From 2010 through the spring of 2022, VandeHoef served as head softball coach at Hope and worked for the college as the Dow Center director.
VandeHoef has guided the Flying Dutch to a 272-163-2 overall record and a 134-54 mark in Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association games. She has led Hope to three NCAA Division III Tournament appearances and shares of the 2021 and 2017 MIAA championships.
VandeHoef came to Hope with a strong undergirding in NCAA Division III athletics. She played softball at Central College in Pella, Iowa, and graduated with honors in 2003. She was a member of the softball coaching staff for two years (2005-2007) at Ithaca College (NY) as a graduate assistant while receiving her master's degree in sport psychology, and helped guide the Bombers to the NCAA Division III College World Series in 2006. Â She then served as an assistant at her alma mater, coaching the junior varsity program and assisting at the varsity level for three years before coming to Hope.
A co-captain of Central's 2003 NCAA Division III national championship team, VandeHoef was a four-time NCAA tournament participant, four-year letter winner, and recipient of the team's most inspirational player award three of her four years. Central compiled a 158-30-1 record during her career, with Iowa Conference titles in 2000, 2002, and 2003, third-place NCAA regional finishes in 2000 and 2002, and two NCAA Division III College World Series appearances, including a national runner-up finish in 2001 and the NCAA championship in 2003.
