Erica Echko enters her twelfth total season as the head coach of the Dayton women's tennis team in 2025-26 since being named head coach for the second time in August of 2017.
During the 2024-25 season, Echko led the team to a 11-12 overall record. In the Atlantic 10 Championships, the Flyers swept George Washington. Natalie Osiecki was named to the All-Atlantic 10 Second and All-Academic teams, earning her second all-conference honors since 2023.
In the 2023-24 season, the Flyers went 11-10 with a 4-0 conference record. The team advanced to the quarterfinals in the Atlantic 10 Championships, sweeping Duquesne. Marra Bruce earned All-Atlantic 10 Second Team recognition.
The Flyers earned the fifth seed in the Atlantic 10 Championships in 2022, the program's best seed since 2002. Neena Katauskas was named Second Team All-Conference.
During the 2017-18 season, she coached the Flyers to a 14-9 record which tied her career-best from the 2004-05 season.
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.
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.
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 MU from 1999-2002.
