Central Baptist College Women's Basketball

Bio           Coach Heffentrager enters her second season at the helm of the Lady Mustangs in 2025-26. 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   Year Record AMC AMC Tournament NAIA Tournament 2024-25 10-17 ^ 8-14 (8th)  0-1 NA Total 10-17 8-14 0-1   ^ AMC Tournament Quarterfinals Assistant Coach @ CBC Year Record AMC AMC Tournament 2021-22 15-16 5-133 1-1 2020-21 10-7 4-6 1-1   AMC PLAYER AWARDS AMC All-Tournament Addison Hudspeth (2024-25) All-AMC Third Team Raigan Head (2024-25) All-AMC Freshman Team Addison Hudspeth (2024-25) Riley Whittington (2024-25)  

Bio Coach Middleton enters his 22nd season guiding the men's and women's golf programs at CBC in 2025-26. In 2024-25 CBC finished third in the AMC Championship. Abby Kirby and Laney Crutchfield both earned second team honors from the AMC while Kirby, Crutchfield and Thaylia Ramirez all earned AMC All-Academic Team honors and Kirby and Crutchfield were both named to the NAIA Daktronics Scholar Athlete Team. The 2023-24 season was a record breaking season for the women's golf team. The Mustangs won the WBU Fall Invitational in October and posted top three finishes five times including a record-breaking second place finish at the AMC Championship. Alyssa Hagewood earned first-team honors while Abby Kirby was selected to the second team and Crutchfield earned an honorable mention selection as well. Those three were joined by Thaylia Ramirez on both the Academic team and the NAIA Daktronics Scholar Athlete team as well. 2022-23 was a history making season that saw Hagewood post her first individual win, which came at the MBU Spring Tournament in April. Hagewood earned first-team all-conference selection after the season and was also named to both the AMC All-Academic Team and NAIA Daktronics Scholar Athlete Team along with Kirby. Laney Crutchfield also earned All-Academic Team recognition as well. The 2021-22 season was a stride forward for women's golf as the Mustangs posted three third place finishes during the season, including at the AMC Championship. Bulza and Hagewood both earned Honorable Mention selections from the conference while those two were joined by Abby Kirby and Brooklyn Adcock on the all-academic team.  In 2020-21, Keeley Bulza was the lone all-conference selection, earning an All-Academic Team bid. The 2019-20 season was cut short with only the fall season being completed. The team had a season-best finish of third place at the Dornick Hills Invitational and Hagewood earned her first career top-five, tying for fifth at the Freed-Hardeman Fall Invitational. 2018-19 saw Shelby Raborn and Hagewood both earn AMC All-Academic team honors after competing in the AMC Championship   Coach Middleton and his wife, Tracie, live in Vilonia with their two children, Gram, a senior on the CBC baseball team and Sidni, a senior at Vilonia High School. They are members at Antioch Baptist Church.  His hobbies include golf and duck hunting/duck guiding. He played on the Adam's Tightlies Tour and NGA Hooter's Golf Tour 2008 – 2009.  He has made the Arkansas Cup Team twice representing Arkansas in the Arkansas Nike Cup and the Governor's Cup. 

Bio Ali Hillis began her first season as assistant women's basketball coach in 2025-26.