Softball
Onyango, McKenzie
McKenzie Onyango
- Title:
- Pitching Coach
- Email:
- McKenzie.Onyango@unt.edu
UNT head softball coach Cody White hired McKenzie Onyango as pitching coach at UNT on June 25, 2025.
Onyango, formerly McKenzie Wagoner, played two seasons for the Mean Green and was named Second Team All-Conference USA as a junior and American Conference All-Tournament Team as a senior. As of June 2025, she holds top-10 career UNT marks in seven pitching categories including ERA (2.04), wins (25) and shutouts (7).
Before her return to UNT, Onyango worked as the pitching coach at Dodge City Community College for the 2024-25 season. Working under DC3 head coach and former Mean Green assistant Mike Viramontez, Onyango helped lead the Conquistadors to a 14-win improvement from the previous season.
Onyango’s bullpen, composed solely of freshmen, lowered its ERA by 63% from the previous season and more than doubled its strikeout total. Four Dodge City players earned recognition from the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) as honorable mention all-league selections.
In the summer of 2025, Onyango served as head coach for the Smoky Mountain Rain of the Scenic City Collegiate League which is based in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Onyango played four seasons of collegiate softball beginning with a two-year stint at Liberty (2021-22) before she capped her career at UNT (2023-24). She finished her four-year career with 36 wins, seven saves, a 2.09 ERA and 234 strikeouts over 365 1/3 innings pitched. Additionally, she collected 10 career hits as a batter including two home runs and nine RBI.
In her first two seasons, she helped Liberty win Atlantic Sun tournament and regular season titles to earn automatic qualification to the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back seasons. She also collected numerous academic awards during her career including three Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete honors, one CSC Academic All-District team selection and an American Athletic Conference All-Academic team distinction.
Onyango grew up in Newcastle, Okla., and attended Newcastle High School where she won the 2020 Oklahoma Gatorade Softball Player of the Year. She was also named one of five recipients of the Michele Smith Award which honors the best softball players in the state of Oklahoma.
Onyango earned her bachelor’s degree and graduated cum laude from UNT in 2024 with a concentration in computer science, business and computer information systems and technical communication.
PLAYING CAREER
2021-22: Liberty
2023-24: UNT
COACHING CAREER
2024-25: Dodge City Community College (Dodge City, Kan.), Pitching Coach
2025: Smoky Mountain Rain (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Head Coach
2025-present: UNT, Pitching Coach
Onyango, formerly McKenzie Wagoner, played two seasons for the Mean Green and was named Second Team All-Conference USA as a junior and American Conference All-Tournament Team as a senior. As of June 2025, she holds top-10 career UNT marks in seven pitching categories including ERA (2.04), wins (25) and shutouts (7).
Before her return to UNT, Onyango worked as the pitching coach at Dodge City Community College for the 2024-25 season. Working under DC3 head coach and former Mean Green assistant Mike Viramontez, Onyango helped lead the Conquistadors to a 14-win improvement from the previous season.
Onyango’s bullpen, composed solely of freshmen, lowered its ERA by 63% from the previous season and more than doubled its strikeout total. Four Dodge City players earned recognition from the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) as honorable mention all-league selections.
In the summer of 2025, Onyango served as head coach for the Smoky Mountain Rain of the Scenic City Collegiate League which is based in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Onyango played four seasons of collegiate softball beginning with a two-year stint at Liberty (2021-22) before she capped her career at UNT (2023-24). She finished her four-year career with 36 wins, seven saves, a 2.09 ERA and 234 strikeouts over 365 1/3 innings pitched. Additionally, she collected 10 career hits as a batter including two home runs and nine RBI.
In her first two seasons, she helped Liberty win Atlantic Sun tournament and regular season titles to earn automatic qualification to the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back seasons. She also collected numerous academic awards during her career including three Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete honors, one CSC Academic All-District team selection and an American Athletic Conference All-Academic team distinction.
Onyango grew up in Newcastle, Okla., and attended Newcastle High School where she won the 2020 Oklahoma Gatorade Softball Player of the Year. She was also named one of five recipients of the Michele Smith Award which honors the best softball players in the state of Oklahoma.
Onyango earned her bachelor’s degree and graduated cum laude from UNT in 2024 with a concentration in computer science, business and computer information systems and technical communication.
PLAYING CAREER
2021-22: Liberty
2023-24: UNT
COACHING CAREER
2024-25: Dodge City Community College (Dodge City, Kan.), Pitching Coach
2025: Smoky Mountain Rain (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Head Coach
2025-present: UNT, Pitching Coach
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