ATLANTA – Georgia State women's basketball has added Erin Batth to its coaching staff, head coach Sharon Baldwin-Tener has announced.
Batth joins returning assistant Jocelyn Wyatt. A final assistant will be added soon.
Batth's collegiate coaching resume includes stints at Tennessee Tech, Towson and VCU, as well as basketball administrative roles at Virginia and the WNBA Sacramento Monarchs and NBA Kings.
For the past two years, she was the recruiting coordinator at Tennessee Tech including the 2012-13 team that finished first in the Ohio Valley Conference with 19 wins. Batth coached against Georgia State for three years in the CAA as a member of the Towson staff, as she also headed up the Tigers' recruiting efforts. Her first coaching job was at VCU in the CAA in 2004-05. She spent three seasons as the Director of Operations at Virginia from 2007-10 and had been an executive assistant and operations specialist for the WNBA Sacramento franchise and NBA franchise.
"Erin is very energetic and has tremendous experience as both a player and a coach,” Baldwin-Tener said. “She competed at the highest level and will help tutor our post players with her knowledge and experience as a player. Her recruiting experience and coaching concepts will strengthen our staff. She is an excellent role model and a great representative of what we are building here at Georgia State.”
The six-foot-four Batth excelled at Clemson from 1997-2001, earning Defensive All-America honors (second team) by the Women's Basketball Journal with 116 blocked shots, the fifth-highest total in Clemson history. As a senior, she was second-team All-ACC as she averaged 12.1 points per game and 8.7 rebounds. When she left Clemson, Batth's totals were eighth all-time in the school record book in rebounds (722) and 20th all-time in scoring (972). Clemson won the ACC in 1999 and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Tournament.
Batth was the first player drafted into the WNBA from Clemson, going 59th overall to the Cleveland Rockers in 2001. She played one season with San Antonio in the WNBA and three seasons professionally overseas in Greece and Turkey.
A Marietta, Ga. native, Batth graduated from Lassiter High School and is in that Cobb County school's Hall of Fame. Baldwin-Tener and Batth's relationship go all the way back to the 1990s when Georgia assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Baldwin-Tener was recruiting Batth at Lassiter.
Georgia State finished fifth in the Sun Belt Conference in its first year of competition in the league and the Panthers return 12 players for 2014-15.
