Amherst College Athletics

Erica Erb joined the Amherst Women’s Lacrosse coaching staff in the fall of 2023 after spending four years in the United Kingdom. The 2025 season is her second with the Mammoths.

Erb is currently an assistant coach for British Lacrosse Women’s Sixes which saw Team GB compete in the World Games in Birmingham, AL in July of 2022. The team is currently preparing for a Sixes Lacrosse Invitational Tournament in Hong Kong that will take place at the end of December 2023.

Erb also served as the head coach for the Wales Women’s Lacrosse National Team. Erb led Wales in the 2022 World Championship in Towson, MD where the team claimed the #9 world ranking after completion of the tournament.

In the summer of 2023, Erb coached in The Fly tournament hosted by England Lacrosse as the head coach for the men’s Rise Sixes team. 

Prior, Erb served as the head coach for the Women’s 1s at the University of Exeter. During her first season in 2019-2020, the team was undefeated heading into the BUCS National Championship before the game was canceled due to COVID-19. 

Previously, Erb spent two years at St. Helen and St. Katharine Day School in Abingdon, England. There, she coached the Senior lacrosse teams while working as a full-time member of the PE teaching department.

Erb spent her playing career at Old Dominion University. ODU made appearances in the CAA Championship Tournament during her sophomore and senior seasons. 2009 saw the Monarchs ranking as high as #18 in NCAA Division I. 

While in the United Kingdom Erb earned a double-masters in international business and psychology.