The 2025-26 season will be Erica Brown's fourth as the head coach of the women's lacrosse program.
The Maroons racked up the postseason accolades once again under Brown's guidance in 2025.Grace Koutouzis was named a IWLCA and USA Lacrosse All-American as well as the ODAC Player of the Year and a IWLCA Senior All-Star. Maddie McDonald was also named an All-American by USA Lacrosse. Additionally, Brown's squad racked up seven All-ODAC, two All-Region, two All-State, and four CSC Academic All-District selections.
Brown's second year was even better than her first. Her efforts with the Roanoke program garnered her ODAC Coach of the Year honors after the squad went 17-5 overall, 8-1 in ODAC play, and made it to the third round of the NCAA Tournment. Brown also led the Maroons to their first undefeated season at home, going 10-0, since the early 1990s. Post-season awards included two All-Americans in Grace Koutouzis and Libby Bowman as well as an All-State and ODAC Rookie of the Year in Maddie McDonald. The squad also picked up eight All-ODAC, four All-State, four All-Region, 28 ODAC All-Academic, 10 IWLCA All-Academic, and five CSC Academic All-District honorees.
Brown had an outstanding first season with the Roanoke College women’s lacrosse team. The Maroons went 16-4 overall and 7-1 in the ODAC and advanced into the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Post-season awards included seven All-ODAC, four All-Region and three all-state honorees. Five Maroons earned spots on the CSC Academic all-district team and Lilly Blair was named a first-team Academic All-American.
Brown completed her 10th season as head coach at Tiffin University in 2021-22. She guided Tiffin to eight straight conference tournament appearances (no conference tourney in 2019-20 due to Covid-19 pandemic) and had a career record of 84-67.
In the 2020-21 season Brown led the Dragons to a three-way tie at the top of the GMAC standings. Senior standout Elle Hamilton was named GMAC Midfielder of the Year, First Team All-Region, and Third Team All-American.
She has coached numerous All Conference standouts, including 43 selections in the last six seasons. In TU's first year in the GMAC in 2019, she led the Dragons to the regular-season conference championship with a perfect 7-0 record and earned a spot in the GMAC title game. Standout Elle Hamilton was named the GMAC Attacker of the Year, while Brown was named conference Coach of the Year.
She led the Dragons to three straight GLIAC Tournament Championship game appearances from 2013-2015. Goalkeeper Jessica Bombard and attacker Emily Roussel were named IWLCA All Americans, while in 2014, they also had two players earn top honors in the conference, as GLIAC co-Attacker of the Year Emily Roussel and two-time GLIAC Goalkeeper of the Year Jessica Bombard were honored. Bombard was also named Goalkeeper of the Year in 2013, while Alexandria Quast earned All-American honors after setting numerous game, season, and career NCAA Division II records.
Brown previously served as Head Coach at Lycoming College, leading the team to a 19-17 overall record, 15-8 in the Middle Atlantic Conference over her two seasons. During that span she coached three All-Region and nine All-Conference players while also guiding 18 student-athletes to Academic All-Conference honors.
She played lacrosse at Wagner College. A standout goalkeeper, Brown still ranks second all-time in Wagner history in career minutes played, career saves and career goals against average. She also holds the record for minutes played in a season and ranks second in saves in a season. A co-captain of the team in her senior year, she was ranked on lax.com as one of the top-12 goalies in all of Division I.
Brown earned a bachelor's degree in public policy and administration from Wagner College in 2005 and is finishing her master's degree in liberal arts from Lock Haven. She is certified as a lacrosse referee by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) and U.S. Lacrosse.
