| Title: | Assistant Coach |
| Phone: | 334-5057 |
| Email: | sarah.kerr@uncg.edu |
In Kerr’s first season as an assistant coach at UNCG she
helped the program amass 38 victories which is the third highest
total in school history. The Spartans started the season 17-3 which
was the best start since 2003.
Kerr worked primarily with the pitching staff that included two
10-game winners and an All-Southern Conference second team member
in Raeanne Hanks. Kerr helped Hanks set career highs in numerous
categories including wins (19), innings pitched (191.1), ERA
(2.34), strikeouts (176), complete games (17), games started (32)
and shutouts (4). Kerr guided Hanks throughout a spectacular run
during the SoCon tournament where she compiled 24 scoreless innings
before allowing one earned run with two shutouts. Hanks collected
numerous accolades during the season including two-straight SoCon
Pitcher of the Month awards, a SoCon Pitcher of the Week and was
named SoCon Tournament Most Outstanding Player.
Kerr helped UNCG pitchers earned 313 strikeouts, which is the
seventh-best mark in school history. Opposing batters only hit .232
against the Spartans and picked up 10 shutouts, the most since the
2008 season.
Kerr spent the past 10 seasons as the head coach of the Louisiana
Tech Lady Techsters in the highly competitive Western Athletic
Conference. Last season, she led LA Tech to its seventh-straight
WAC Tournament appearance becoming the third school to qualify for
every tournament since 1996 joining Hawaii and Fresno
State. In her 10 years at LA Tech she amassed a record
of 240-338.
During Kerr’s decade at Tech, her teams shattered numerous
team and individual offensive records as she rebuilt a program that
participated in numerous college world series and NCAA Tournaments
during the 1980s and early '90s. Nine of the program’s top 10
all-time team home run marks have come under Kerr, including a
program record 59 in 2009.
Twenty-eight of her players have earned all-Western Athletic Conference honors, including at least one every year and a program-record five in 2009. Former shortstop Amberly Waits became the first LA Tech player to ever earn the WAC Player of the Year award as she was an easy selection in 2009 after winning the WAC Triple Crown (led league in average, home runs and RBI).
Kerr has also had 36 of her players named to the Louisiana
Sports Writers Association all-state team, including Waits who was
named the 2009 Hitter of the Year, outfielder Emma Barnes was named
the state Freshman of the Year in 2006 and utility Melanie Goff was
named the Newcomer of the Year in 2012.
Kerr also emphasizes education, and it has paid off during her
tenure at Louisiana Tech. During the previous 10 years at Tech, a
total of 43 of LA Tech's student-athletes have earned a total of 90
Academic All-Western Athletic Conference honors, ranking among the
most in the league during that time.
Prior to coming to Louisiana Tech in 2003, Kerr served as an
assistant coach at UL-Monroe from 2000 through 2002 and at Marshall
University in 1999.
Kerr was also a standout in the circle, compiling a record of
120-56 while registering 151 complete games, 1,242.1 innings
pitched, 1,280 strikeouts and 74 career shutouts. Her complete
games, innings pitched, strikeouts and career shutouts all ranked
in the top 10 in NCAA Division I history while her 120 career wins
ranked sixth. She still holds the school record for career
victories, lowest earned run average (0.69), inning pitched,
strikeouts, shutouts, games pitched, games started and complete
games.
Kerr continued to be successful after her collegiate career,
joining the Women's Professional Fast-pitch League in the summer of
1997, where she earned the first year league's inaugural Most
Valuable Player award, ranking No. 1 in wins (30) and saves (4) and
second in shutouts, complete games, earned run average and
opponent's batting average.
Kerr earned her bachelor's degree in finance from UL-Monroe in 1998.