Kristin Erb joined Kelley Green’s staff in 2012 as she served as an assistant coach where she focused on the pitching development of the Chanticleer pitching staff. Currently Erb’s focus has shifted to much more of an overall focus with the defense of the outfielders and offensively with hitters, slap hitters, and baserunning technique.
In eight seasons, Erb has helped Green’s squads to a 245-155 overall record with a Big South regular-season, championshp, six conference tournament appearances (4-Big South, 2-Sun Belt).
While working with Chant batters over the past three seasons, the Coastal teams have had a variety of success under Erb’s teaching.
In 2020, Erb mentored junior transfer Makiya Thomas to being the first player in school history to lead the Sun Belt with a .463 batting average. Fellow Chants, sophomore Abbey Montoya and freshman Peyton Rivas round out the top five in the same category.
Home run hitting was a part of the CCU offensive attack in 2018 and 2019 where the Chanticleer hitters were ranked in the top-20 of the nation of home runs. In 2018, they ranked third in the country with 1.39 home runs per game while the Courtney Dean tied the Sun Belt lead with 15 home runs. Dean followed up in 2019 just behind teammate Kassidy Smith (15) for the conference’s top mark with 13 long balls. The 2019 Chanticleer team was eighth in the nation in total home runs behind Arizona, Florida State, James Madison, Virginia Tech, Arizona State, and Alabama.
From 2014-2017, the Coastal assistant worked with Chanticleer pitchers Kiana Quolas, Ashley, Bagwell, Kelsey Dominik, and Ashley Guillette.
Under Erb’s guidance, Quolas had 67 wins as she was awarded as a two-time NFCA All-Region selection, the two-time Big South Pitcher of the Year, three-time All-Big South Conference selection. In 2014, Quolas led the Chants to the NCAA Softball Tournament with the second-most wins in a single-season school history (27), and the eighth-best earned run average in the country of 1.29, the fourth-best in school history at the time. The Chanticleers finished 2014 with a 1.61 team ERA, ranking as the sixth-lowest in the NCAA.
Ashley Bagwell also helped Quolas and the Chants in 2014 with a All-Big South first-team selection when she posted a career-best 2.01 ERA.
Two-year starter Kelsey Dominik transferred in from Temple after two years with the Owls and added 14 wins in 2015 and followed it up in 2016 with 19, the fourth-best Big South Conference.
In three seasons working with Erb, Guillette amassed 38 wins. In her first career start in 2016, Guillette tied the school single-game strikeout record against NC State when she fanned 13 Wolfpack batters. 2016 also saw Guillette throw a no-hit victory over No. 3-seed Liberty in the Big South Tournament quarterfinals.
Erb joined the Chanticleer staff after spending the 2012 season at James Madison University where she served as the pitching coach and was responsible for all coaching aspects of the pitching staff as well as working with the catchers in the development of game-calling strategies. In 2012, under the direction of Erb, the Dukes pitching staff produced eight shutouts while lowering the team ERA from 3.67 in 2011 to 3.03. In addition, the pitching staff lowered opponents’ batting average 25 points over the previous year and produced 50 more strikeouts.
Before joining the staff at James Madison, Erb served a one-year stint as the pitching coach at Austin Peay and oversaw all aspects of the team’s pitching staff, including developing in-season and off-season pitching workouts and charting the pitching staff for evaluation. Erb also spent a season as an assistant coach with Lock Haven University, where she worked with the team’s pitchers and catchers and also served as the first base coach.
As a player at Lock Haven, Erb amassed one of the greatest playing careers of any Division II softball player in history. She went 168-18 with a 0.389 ERA while recording 1,388 strikeouts and 100 shutouts. She ranks first in Division II history in victories, single-season wins (50), shutouts, games started (171), innings pitched (1,240) and consecutive scoreless innings pitched (86 1/3). In addition, she threw seven career perfect games and 13 no-hitters while being named a four-time NFCA All-American. She was a two-time winner of the Division II Honda Award for National Player of the Year and a three-time Daktronics Pitcher of the Year.
After finishing her playing career for the Eagles, the Reading, Pa., native spent two seasons playing in the NPF, formerly the Women’s Pro Softball League. In 2009 she led the Philadelphia Force in wins, ERA and innings pitched and in 2010 she was second on the Tennessee Diamonds in ERA and innings pitched.
Erb graduated from Lock Haven University in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in sports administration.
