Faith Hensley - Softball Coach - Central Michigan University Athletics

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Faith Hensley

Title:
Assistant Coach
E-Mail Address:
hensl1f@cmich.edu
Year at CMU:
2nd
Hometown:
Monroe, Ohio
Alma Mater/Year:
Ball State/2022 & Alabama/2023
Experience:
2nd

In the 2026 season, her inaugural year as the hitting coach for Central Michigan, Hensley made an immediate impact on the Chippewa offense.

Team 48 set multiple single season records as an offense.

Team batting average (.325)
Runs scored (285)
Hits (450)
RBI (268)

CMU opened the 2026 season with a run-rule victory over Marist (12-4 (5 inn.)). The team recorded eight runs in the first inning of the season, showing the immediate impact of Hensley’s offensive approach instruction. In that game, London Williams went 4-4 and recorded four RBI.

Throughout the season, the offense continued to stay hot with 21 10+ hit games and seven 10+ run games.

Eight of the nine starters in the lineup for CMU hit .300+. The offense was led by senior Angela Petrovitch in the leadoff spot, who hit .397. Jenna Kuzara, who hit .364, recorded 18 doubles, tied for third best in a single season in program history.

Kuzara was not the only player who entered their name in the record book for offensive categories in 2026.

Angela Petrovitch, 174 AB, 8^th
Angela Petrovitch, 41 runs scored, 5^th
London Williams, 40 runs scored, T6
Angela Petrovitch, 69 hits, 10^th
Angela Petrovitch, .397 Avg., 6^th
Jenna Kuzara, 45 RBI, 4^th
London Williams, 43 RBI, T7
Jenna Kuzara, 18 doubles, T3
Angela Petrovitch, 6 triples, 6^th
Alexa Carter, 10 home runs, T8

The .325 batting average as a team was tied for the 3^rd best in the Mid-American Conference in 2026, 78 doubles was 4^th best, and the teams .486 slugging percentage was also 4^th best.

Hensley, a 2022 graduate of Ball State, is very familiar with finding success in the Mid-American Conference softball landscape. For the 2023 season, Hensley spent her graduate year playing for Alabama where the Crimsin Tide participated in the Women’s College World Series.

In her time at Ball State, Hensley was named MAC Player of the Year in her senior season and earned First Team All-MAC honors in the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Honored as a NFCA All-Great Lakes All-Region player in the 2021 and 2022 seasons, Hensley was also a three-time MAC Player of the Week in her time as a Cardinal.

Academically, Hensley was a 2022 First Team All-America honoree from College Sport Communicators, one of 30 NCAA D1 players to receive the honor. In the 2021 and 2022 seasons, Hensley was named Academic All-MAC and was a Mid-American Conference Distinguished Scholar Athlete. For the 2019, 2020 and 2021 seasons, Faith earned Easton/NFCA All-American Scholar Athlete honors.

Total in her time as a Cardinal posted a .389 batting average, hitting .404 in her senior season, 3^rd best in the MAC. Hensley ranked in the top-ten in 10 offensive categories in the 2022 season in the MAC a .814 slugging percentage (2^nd), a .533 on-base percentage (1^st), a 1.347 OPS (2^nd), scored 51 runs (3^rd), had 63 hits (3^rd), charted 40 RBI (5^th), hit 17 home runs (2^nd), drew 37 walks (1^st) and stole 13 bases (9^th).

With Alabama, Hensley hit started 23 games, appearing in 51. She stole six bases with five walks and was hit by five pitches. Hensley hit two home runs on February 25^th, 2023, one against Indiana State and one against Saint Louis. Against Auburn, Hensley charted a double in her pinch hit at-bat.

Hensley owns a .967 fielding percentage as an outfielder in her career with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage at Alabama in 2023.

In 2022, Hensley graduated from Ball State with a degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry, and in 2023 from Alabama with a master’s in health sciences with a concentration in Health Promotion. Since then, Hensley has served as a camp coordinator and private instructor at DBAT in West Chester, Ohio, close to her hometown of Monroe, Ohio.