Bio

Defiance College announced the hiring of new women's basketball coach Courtney Peay in May 2023, making her the program's 14th head coach beginning with the 2023-24 season. Courtney will also serve as the athletic department's Senior Woman Administrator, starting in July 2023.

Peay comes to Defiance after spending the previous three years at NAIA Trinity International University in Deerfield, Ill. With seven years of college coaching experience, Peay was elevated to TIU's head coaching position for the 2022-23 campaign after spending two seasons as an assistant for the Trojans.

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Peay achieved her bachelor's degree from Nyack College in New York in 2013 in youth and family studies. Peay played basketball for the Warriors, a Division II program, and was part of the 2009-10 team that won the Central Atlantic Athletic Conference to become the first Nyack team in school history to qualify for an NCAA Tournament.  She later served as an assistant women's basketball coach at Nyack from 2014-18 while completing her master's of divinity in leadership development.