Marina Demore enters her third season as Sacramento State’s pitching coach in 2027.
Demore, who has 12 years of coaching experience at the Div. I level, has spent six of those seasons as a pitching coach.
Last season (2026), in her second as the pitching coach with the Hornets, Demore oversaw a staff where all six pitchers finished with a record above .500. The team finished with a 3.53 ERA, the 65th best mark in the country. The staff allowed just one home run every 11.3 innings, yielded a .263 batting average, and saw two players named all-conference in Alexa Ortiz and Kennedie Bacon. Four of her pitchers registered an ERA below 3.50.
In her first season with the Hornets in 2025, Demore saw three of her pitchers post a sub-3.50 ERA. In fact, each of those pitchers received some form of all-conference recognition, including Caroline Evans, Bacon and Ortiz. It marked the first time in program history the Hornets had more than two pitchers named all-Big Sky Conference. That included a team ERA of 2.29 in conference play, easily the top mark in the Big Sky.
The Vancouver, British Columbia, native spent the 2024 season as the interim head coach at Nevada, guiding the Wolf Pack to a 40-17 overall record, including 14-8 in the Mountain West Conference. The 40 wins were tied for second most in program history, and highest total since 2009. The team finished the season 52nd in the RPI, set a number of school records, and tied for second in the Mountain West standings (just one game shy of a regular season title).
In addition, Demore’s pitching staff had a 2.78 ERA (49th best in the nation) while limiting the opposition to a .241 batting average. Three pitchers posted sub-3.00 ERA’s, and each of those three tossed at least 97.0 innings.
Demore spent three years at Nevada (2022-24), and worked with the pitchers and catchers each of those seasons. She was assistant coach in 2022 and 2023. During her three-year tenure, Nevada went from a 17-35, 7-17 team in 2022, to 31-19, 10-12 in 2023, and finally the 2024 mark of 40-17, 14-8.
Prior to Nevada, Demore was the pitching coach at Northern Kentucky for one season (2021) after spending two years (2018-20) as the graduate assistant at Fresno State. She also had one-year assistant coaching stops at the University of British Columbia (2017), Loyola-Chicago (2016) and UC Riverside (2015). Demore spent the summers of 2014 and 2015 as an assistant coach with the Greek National Team.
Demore played four seasons (2010-13) at Oregon State, where she helped the Beavers to back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances in 2012 and 2013. A pitcher, she struck out 341 batters during her career, tied for 10th most in Oregon State history.
Demore improved her win total every season, culminating in a senior year in which she finished 21-13 with a 3.00 ERA, 186 innings and a .236 opponent batting average. The staff ace, Demore led the pitching staff that year in virtually every statistical category while helping the team to 34 wins and an NCAA Regional appearances. In fact, during the Beavers’ second game of the NCAA Regional, she tossed a two-hit shutout of Stony Brook.
Demore competed for the Canadian National Team from 2008-14, which included a second place finish for Team Canada at the 2013 Pan American Championship.
She graduated from Oregon State in 2014 with a biology degree, and later earned her master’s degree in sports psychology from Fresno State in 2020.
