Sue Carpenter served three years as an assistant coach with the Wright State softball program (2007-09). While at WSU, her duties included working with the infielders, coordinating camps, recruiting and scouting.
Carpenter came to Wright State after serving as the head softball coach at Cedarville University for seven seasons. She guided the Lady Jackets to 162 victories, the most by any softball coach in the program's history, along with four NCCAA National Tournament appearances and three NAIA Region IX Tournament berths.
CU posted back-to-back 27-15 records under Carpenter's leadership in 2004 and 2005, with the 27 wins tying the third-highest single-season mark in school history. The Jackets finished a best-ever 2nd place in the American Mideast Conference South Division in 2005 behind nationally-ranked Ohio Dominican.
Carpenter led the Lady Jackets to a 30-22 mark in 2002 which is the most victories for a CU softball squad in one season. Her inaugural team in 2000 had a 24-15 slate, which was the school's first winning campaign in ten years, and the Jackets won their first-ever NCCAA Midwest Region championship banner.
Prior to assuming the head job with the Lady Jackets, she posted a 22-17 record in two years as head coach at Cedarville High School including a best-ever 14-6 mark in 1999. The Indians won their first sectional championship, finished as the district runner-up, and were second in the Kenton Trace Conference with an 8-3 record.
A 1987 Cedarville graduate, Carpenter played softball for the Lady Jackets during the 1984-86 seasons. She was on the school's first fast-pitch squad in 1985 and was an All-Western Buckeye Collegiate Conference and All-NAIA District 22 shortstop in 1986. Carpenter still holds single-game school records for runs scored (4), runs batted in (6), stolen bases (4), and walks (4). She is Cedarville's season (38) and career (57) record holder for walks. She was later an assistant coach for the Lady Jackets in 1987-89 and then served for five years on the coaching staff at Colville High School in Washington from 1991-95.
Sue and her husband, Kevin, have two boys: Nick and Josh.
The Carpenter File
* NCCAA Midwest Region Champions - 2000
* NCCAA National Tournament Appearances - 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006
* NAIA Region IX Tournament Appearances - 2000, 2002, 2005
* AMC Tournament Qualifier - 2003, 2005
* 4 NCCAA All-Americans
* 1 NCCAA Midwest Region Tournament MVP
* 10 All-NAIA Region IX players
* 25 All-NCCAA Midwest Region players
* 16 All-American Mideast Conference South Division players
* 1 AMC South Division Freshman of the Year
* 9 NAIA All-America Scholar-Athletes
* 12 NCCAA All-America Scholar-Athletes
