| Title: | Associate Director of Athletics, Senior Woman Administrator |
| Phone: | (518) 244-2497 |
| Email: | e.li@sage.edu |
Erica Faas-Li is in her first year serving as Associate Director of Athletics 2023-2024. She wrapped her fifth season as the Head Softball Coach at Russell Sage College in 2023 and led the Gators to three Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament appearances during that time. The 2023 team finished the season as the E8 Tournament Runner-up with a record of 23-18. Overall on her time at RSC, she owned a career record of 73-75 in her five seasons as the softball coach.
She coached multiple All-Region and All-Conference performers as well as the 2022 and 2023 Empire 8 Player of the Year, Arianna Papas, who became Li’s first All-American with her selection to the team in 2023 after earning three straight All-Region First Team selections in the outfield.
In her role as associate athletic director, Faas-Li is involved with student-athlete academic monitoring, student workers and event management for the department, a role she earned in the summer of 2019.
A 2016 graduate of Williams College, she came to RSC in October 2018 after serving as the softball coach and the coordinator of academic success and diversity at nearby Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
She arrived at MCLA having garnered the NCAA’s NCAA Ethnic Minority and Women's Internship Grant. While at MCLA, Faas-Li served as the College's coordinator of academic success and diversity under the NCAA Grant. In addition, she was also named the head softball coach at MCLA in May of 2018 after serving as the team's interim coach during the 2018 season.
Faas-Li enjoyed a decorated softball career at Williams College. The four-year letterwinner for the program, serving as captain during her senior season. She was named an All-American in 2016, and was also tabbed as the New England Small College Athletics Conference (NESCAC) Player of the Year.
Her teams at Williams competed in the NCAA Tournament during her final three seasons, which included trips to the regional finals in both 2015 and 2016. While Li was an accomplished softball player, she was also an active member of the campus community. She served as a junior advisor at Williams, which is a mentoring program for first-year students. She was selected out of a pool of 120 candidates for the advising position at Williams. The program entailed living amongst the first-year students, mentoring them academically, and assisting them with the transition to Williams.