Maddi Hackbarth was hired on September, 2024 as the Santa Clara University assistant softball coach.
Hackbarth works with the hitters and the catchers. In 2025, the Broncos set a single season team record (since at least 2000) with the highest batting average at .309. The Broncos led the WCC in runs (312, 5.8 runs/game), hits (453, 8.4 hits/game), doubles (83), RBIs (271), bases on balls (174), hit by pitches (49), least number of batters striking out (190), OBP (.394), stolen bases (80), sacrifice flies (25) and sacrifice bunts (43) en route to winning the program's first WCC Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance.
Cairah Curran was named West Coast Conference Player of the Year setting the league's single season hit record with 78 and was the only player to lead the WCC in five offensive categories - batting average (.415), runs (49), hits (78), triples (five) and stolen bases (26). Catcher Taryn Clements was named WCC Defensive Player of the Year as she did not commit an error in 172 chances.
Hackbarth joined the Broncos from Central Arizona College where she was the head coach for two seasons posting an overall record of 65-39 including a run to the NJCAA Region I, Div. I Softball Championship game in 2023.
During the 2023 campaign, the Vaqueras posted a slash line of .389/.451/.591 and belted 57 home runs in 62 games while averaging 8.3 runs per game. Last season, they averaged 7.0 runs per game with a .322/.411/.473 slash line.
The former Arizona State captain was an All-American catcher for the Sun Devils earning second team at-large honors by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and third team recognition by Softball America in 2021. That season she hit a robust .384 with a .470 on-base percentage and a whopping .913 slugging percentage.
A native of Oakdale, California, Hackbarth tied the ASU single season home run record with 20 round trippers in 2021 and finished fifth in career home runs with 54.
Behind the dish, she posted a .992 career fielding percentage, making 187 starts out of 189 games as a four year starter.
After graduating from Arizona State with a bachelor of science degree in liberal arts, Hackbarth began her coaching career as an assistant coach at Central Arizona College before getting promoted to the head coaching position in the summer of 2022.
