Coby Mackin

University of Central Oklahoma Athletics

Title

Senior Associate Athletic Director – Administration
Email

cmackin@uco.edu
Phone

405-974-2141

Coby Mackin joined the University of Central Oklahoma in December 2024 and serves as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Administration.

Mackin, who came to Central from Oklahoma City University, oversees administration in the athletics department’s day-to-day operations.

Mackin arrived to OCU in 2023 as the assistant athletics director for internal affairs and in the early stages of 2024 Mackin was named Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Academics and Senior Woman Administrator.

Before arriving at OCU, Mackin served as associate athletics director at Bayside Academy in Daphne, Ala, where she also owned and operated a facility for training athletes, The Fieldhouse, and was founder and president of a non-profit amateur sports organization, Southern Spirit Sports.

Prior to that, Mackin served as the pitching coach for the softball program at the University of South Alabama, where two of her pitchers were named Top 25 finalists for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award, and both were selected in the National Pro Fastpitch Draft.

Mackin began her coaching career in 1998 as the first head coach in Spring Hill College softball program history. The Badgers made three national tournament appearances, including a third-place finish in the program’s second season of competition. Mackin coached 10 All-Americans, 25 All-Region picks, and 48 all-conference selections while compiling a 289-138-4 record in eight seasons. In 2003 Mackin was promoted to director of athletics in addition to her head-coaching duties. She was inducted into the SHC Hall of Fame in 2023.

During her collegiate playing career, Mackin was a four-year letter winner and was a member of four squads that advanced to the NAIA Championships at the University of Mobile (Ala.). She became a three-time NAIA scholar-athlete and First Team All-American in 1996. Mackin spent one season playing professionally in the Women's Professional Fastpitch league for the Durham Dragons.

Originally from Houston, Mackin graduated from Mobile in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications and earned a second bachelor’s degree in Spanish in 1997. She is married (Lee) and has two children (Marlee and Luke).