Ophir Sadeh joined the Hofstra softball coaching staff as an assistant coach in January 2023.
Sadeh brings a wealth of softball coaching experience at the collegiate and high school level to the Hofstra softball program. He recently spent two seasons as an assistant coach at New York University from 2019 through 2021, where he was responsible for working with the Violets pitchers and catchers, as well as assisting with infield coaching, recruiting, scouting reports, and practice/game preparations. At NYU, he helped coach numerous student-athletes to conference and regional honors, including National Fastpitch Coaches Association Second Team All-Northeast honors for Diana King and Third Team honors for Ashley Mains.
This will not be Sadeh’s first experience on a Hofstra softball staff, as he was a volunteer assistant with the Pride under legendary head coach and Hofstra Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Bill Edwards from 2002-09.
Prior to joining NYU, Sadeh coached at Adelphi University from 2013-18 initially as an assistant coach before being named the Associate Head Coach in 2015. At Adelphi, Sadeh’s responsibilities included recruiting and working with the team’s pitchers, catchers, and infielders. Sadeh helped lead the Panthers to back-to-back Women’s College World Series appearances in 2015 and 2016, and he helped guide the team to Northeast-10 Conference Tournament titles in 2013, 2017, and 2018, and he won two NFCA East Region Coaching Staff of the Year awards with the Panthers in 2015 and 2016.
In addition to his time in college softball, Sadeh was an assistant coach on the varsity softball team at Smithtown West High School from 2011-13, and has worked at many collegiate skills clinics such as Elite Collegiate Skills and RiseBall Camps.
Sadeh graduated from Hofstra in 2004 with a degree in physical education, and he received his master’s degree in liberal arts from Stony Brook in 2006.
