Softball
Kiana Quolas
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- quolask21@ecu.edu
- Phone:
- (252) 737-4817
Kiana Quolas joined the East Carolina softball team as an assistant coach in June 2021.
Quolas spent the previous three seasons on East Carolina head coach Shane Winkler’s staff at George Washington, working primarily with the team’s pitchers. She helped the Colonials reach new heights as the team captured a program-record 44 wins in 2019, earned a share of the first regular season Atlantic 10 softball title in GW history as well as making an appearance in the National Invitational Softball Championship Liberty Regional. The Colonials’ rapid ascent with Quolas’ assistance continued in 2021 with their initial outright A-10 trophy and first appearance in the NCAA Championships.
Under Quolas’ tutelage, Sierra Lange became the first GW hurler to be named the A-10 Pitcher of the Year in 2021. Lange spearheaded a pitching staff that set a George Washington record and finished 18th nationally with an team earned run average of just 1.97. The staff also finished third in the NCAA in strikeout-to-walk ratio, punching out 5.60 batters for every free pass awarded.
“Kiana was instrumental in building a championship pitching staff at George Washington,” Winkler explained. “Her ability to develop pitchers and improve their fundamental and mental game is going to be important for our staff moving forward. She's quickly becoming one of the best young pitching coaches in the country and I'm looking forward to her working with our pitching staff.”
Before her hire at GW, Quolas served as an assistant coach at George Mason (2017-18) and Youngstown State (2015-17).
Quolas played at Coastal Carolina from 2011 to 2015 and was a two-time Big South Conference Pitcher of the Year selection. She graduated cum laude from CCU in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science before earning a master’s degree in gerontology from Youngstown State in 2017.
Quolas spent the previous three seasons on East Carolina head coach Shane Winkler’s staff at George Washington, working primarily with the team’s pitchers. She helped the Colonials reach new heights as the team captured a program-record 44 wins in 2019, earned a share of the first regular season Atlantic 10 softball title in GW history as well as making an appearance in the National Invitational Softball Championship Liberty Regional. The Colonials’ rapid ascent with Quolas’ assistance continued in 2021 with their initial outright A-10 trophy and first appearance in the NCAA Championships.
Under Quolas’ tutelage, Sierra Lange became the first GW hurler to be named the A-10 Pitcher of the Year in 2021. Lange spearheaded a pitching staff that set a George Washington record and finished 18th nationally with an team earned run average of just 1.97. The staff also finished third in the NCAA in strikeout-to-walk ratio, punching out 5.60 batters for every free pass awarded.
“Kiana was instrumental in building a championship pitching staff at George Washington,” Winkler explained. “Her ability to develop pitchers and improve their fundamental and mental game is going to be important for our staff moving forward. She's quickly becoming one of the best young pitching coaches in the country and I'm looking forward to her working with our pitching staff.”
Before her hire at GW, Quolas served as an assistant coach at George Mason (2017-18) and Youngstown State (2015-17).
Quolas played at Coastal Carolina from 2011 to 2015 and was a two-time Big South Conference Pitcher of the Year selection. She graduated cum laude from CCU in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science before earning a master’s degree in gerontology from Youngstown State in 2017.
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