 Steve Phillips
Alma Mater: Mount Saint Mary '14
Record at Kenyon: 5-21 (1 Year)
Overall Record: 5-21 (1 Year)
Steve Phillips was named head coach of the Owls men's basketball program in the spring of 2023. Previoulsy, he served as an assistant coach at Williams College since the 2018-19 season.
Phillips, who also has coaching experience at Washington & Lee University and Mount Saint Mary College, became Kenyon's eighth head coach since the College joined the North Coast Athletic Conference in the 1984-85 season. He stepped into the role left vacant by Dan Priest, who coached at Kenyon the previous 13 seasons.
Phillips, who worked alongside head coach Kevin App at Williams, departed the program after a 23-5 season in which the Ephs made an appearance in the NCAA Division III Tournament and won their first-round game. In 2021-22, the team went to the NCAA Tournament's third round and in 2018-19, his first season at Williams, the Ephs were 23-7 and made a run into the NCAA quarterfinal round. In all, the Ephs posted a combined 78-29 (.729) record in Phillips' four seasons of work within the highly-competitive New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).
During that same span, Phillips helped coach and develop five All-NESCAC players and one All-American.
A native of New Hyde Park, N.Y., Phillips graduated from Mount Saint Mary in 2014 with bachelor's degree in history and education/special education. He then went on to earn a master's degree in education, school building leadership, from St. John's University in 2018.
During his playing days at Mount Saint Mary, he went from a walk-on, to a starting point guard, to senior captain that led the winningest class in school history (82-32) to the Skyline Conference Championship game his senior year.
Following graduation, he remained at Mount Saint Mary to commence his coaching career. Two years later, Phillips was hired as an assistant at Washington and Lee, where he coached five All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference honorees and helped steer the Generals to their best conference finish in 40 years.
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 Mary Corbett
Alma Mater: Otterbein '15
Record at Kenyon: 11-41 (2 Years)
Overall Record: 11-41 (2 Years)
Mary Corbett was hired as the Owls head coach in September of 2022. She spent the previous three years at NCAA Division III Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.
While at Otterbein, Corbett served as the lead assistant coach during a span in which the Cardinals posted a combined 38-26 record, including last season's 18-7 mark that was coupled with a fourth-place finish in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC).
Corbett recruited and helped develop the 2021 OAC Freshman of the Year, five All-OAC honorees, six Academic All-OAC student-athletes and a winner of the 2020 OAC Clyde Lamb Award, given to the conference's top basketball student-athletes.
Corbett is a 2015 Otterbein graduate. She transferred there after two seasons at nearby Ohio Wesleyan University. She earned four letters throughout her playing days, was named Otterbein's team captain as a senior, averaged 10 points per game, and set the program's record for single-season free throw percentage.
Following her graduation, Corbett went to work, for one season, as a women's basketball intern at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. The following year, she returned to Otterbein to serve as a graduate assistant while earning her master's degree in business administration. The team registered a combined 28-25 record over those two years.
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