Erica Echko

Erica Echko enters her eighth total season as the head coach of the Dayton women's tennis team in 2021-22 since being named head coach for the second time in August of 2017. Erica is not only a great coach and educator, but is also an exceptional player. She won the Women's Open Doubles at The Met in 2009, was the USPTA/Midwest Open female Player of the Year in 2007, and had one of the best all-time winning percentages at Miami University from 1999-2002.

During her first seven seasons, Echko has amassed 52 wins. In 2018, she coached Maryls Bridgham to an Atlantic 10 Second-Team All-Conference selection as well as Kelly Pleiman and Erica Wojcikiewicz as Academic All-Conference members in 2021. During the 2017-18 season, she coached the Flyers to a 14-9 record which tied her career-best from the 2004-05 season. Echko returned to the Flyers coaching staff for the 2014-15 season to be the assistant coach of the men's and women's tennis teams. Echko also worked as the Interclub Coordinator/Staff Professional for the Five Seasons Sports Club in Northern Kentucky from 2010-2015. Before Five Seasons, Erica served as a USPTA certified tennis professional at the Garrison Tennis Center in Marietta, GA and a school counselor in Dallas, GA. Echko is a former coach, a former scholarship player at Miami (Ohio), and a Centerville native. She was an assistant coach at the University of Akron in 2004, and the head women's tennis coach at the University of Dayton from 2005-2007.