Kelliner Croushore begins her second season as the head coach of the Lafayette softball program. She was named the interim head coach on Jan. 26, 2025 for the 2025 season before being named the program's permanent head coach on May 16, 2025.
In 2025, Croushore led the team to its first Patriot League sweep since 2008, coincidentally over her alma mater Holy Cross, and guided the program on its longest win streak since 2017. The Leopards also posted their first conference mercy-rule win since 2018 and showed a four-game improvement in their Patriot League win total.
Offensively, Croushore saw the team batting average jump 51 points from 2024 to 2025 and the team slugging percentage climb 98 points. In conference play, the numbers were even more impressive, as the team batting average increased by 109 points with slugging percentage (139 points) and on-base percentage (118 points) also rising significantly. Leading the way at the plate was senior Mary Grace O'Neill who was the program's first All-Patriot League First-Team honoree since 2013. O'Neill also garnered Academic All-Patriot League laurels and hit for a .423 season average (third best in a season in Lafayette history and second in the Patriot League in 2025) while also ascending to third on the career steals list.
Croushore came to College Hill after spending the 2024 season as an assistant coach at Holy Cross.
Prior to her time at Holy Cross, Croushore spent five years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif. She initially began as an assistant coach in 2018, before being named the interim head coach ahead of the 2020 season. In March of 2021, Croushore was officially named the program’s head coach, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed her first season at the helm until 2022.
At Occidental, Croushore coached a pair of Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) all-league honorees and 35 of her student-athletes were placed on the SCIAC All-Academic Team from 2020-24.
Prior to Occidental, Croushore served as an assistant coach and assistant pitching coach at Georgetown University, helping guide three student-athletes to All-Big East Second-Team honors. From 2014-16, Croushore served in a similar role at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., coaching seven all-conference players, including two with all-region status.
Croushore was a four-year letterwinner at Holy Cross, starting 117 of 157 games played. In the program record books, she is tied for third all-time in single-season home runs (5 in 2013) and ranks seventh in career home runs (8).
A native of Claremont, Calif., Croushore graduated from Holy Cross in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology. She went on to earn a master’s degree in Sports Industry Management from Georgetown in 2018.
(updated 5/25)
