Erin Brown begins her first season as head softball coach in 2007.  Brown was previously head coach and sports information director at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. and was a three-time letterwinner for the Bulldog softball team from 1999-2001.

Brown took over a Westminster program in 2004 that had won just two games the previous two seasons and won 17 the next two years under her tutelage.  She had four players named all-conference by the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletics Conference, including the school’s first first-team pick in three seasons.

Prior to Westminster, Brown served as a graduate intern at the Missouri State High School Activities Association in the summer of 2004 after completing her master’s degree at Central Missouri State.  She assisted long-time Jennies coach Rhesa Sumrell for two seasons in Warrensburg as Central went 69-40 during that period.

Brown transferred to Truman from Culver-Stockton College in 1999 and was a member of three NCAA regional finalist squads.  The Bulldogs went 133-34-1 over the three-year period under then-head coach Kristy Schroeder, including a school record 46 wins in the 1999 season.

Brown was used mostly as a utility player and had a career high .313 batting average in 1999 and was second on the team in 2000 with 14 stolen bases in 48 games played.

Erin played high school softball at South Shelby High School .Erin is married to former Bulldog Basketball standout, Brian Brown, who is the head boy’s basketball coach at Centralia High School in Centralia, Mo.  They have a newborn daughter named Teryn.