Kelliner Croushore enters her first season as an assistant coach at Holy Cross in 2024.
Croushore returns to The Hill after five seasons at Occidental College with two coming as head coach, one as interim head coach and two as an assistant coach. Croushore took over the Division III program in 2020, as interim head coach however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 season was cut short and the 2021 campaign was cancelled. Hired in August 2018, Croushore was the first female full-time assistant coach in Occidental Athletics history.
At Occidental, Croushore coached two Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) all-league honorees, freshman Alysha Wagner was a first team All-SCIAC honoree at shortstop in 2023 and senior Drew Samson earned second team All-SCIAC honors at catcher in 2022. The program under Croushore also had success in the classroom as 35 student-athletes were placed on the SCIAC All-Academic Team.
Before Occidental, Croushore was a volunteer assistant coach/assistant pitching coach at Georgetown and helped three players achieve All-Big East second team honors. She also had a stop at Division III Rhodes in Memphis as an assistant softball coach – pitching, outfield and hitting. At Rhodes, seven players were awarded all-league honors during Croushore’s tenure and two were named all-region.
Croushore, a co-captain, played four seasons at Holy Cross appearing in 157 games earning 117 starts. She recorded a career .242 batting average with 94 hits, 43 runs scored, eight home runs, 51 RBI, 15 doubles, 16 stolen bases and 34 walks. In the program record books, she is tied for third all-time in single season home runs (5, 2013).
On March 11, 2013, she was named the College Sports Madness Patriot League Player of the Week after hitting .300 with two home runs at the Rebel Spring Games. She was selected as one of 200 Division I athletes nationwide to participate in the 2014 NCAA Career in Sports Forum. In classroom, Croushore was a one-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll selection in 2014.
Croushore graduated from Holy Cross with a bachelor of arts in sociology in 2014 and achieved her master’s of professional studies in sports industry management from Georgetown in 2018.
