Erin Campbell joined the Arkansas State women's basketball program as director of basketball operations ahead of the 2021-22 season.
Campbell joined Matt Daniel’s A-State staff after spending the last three years in the high school and junior high coaching ranks in Arkansas, most recently serving as the head junior high girls coach at Conway Junior High. She also assisted with Conway High School’s varsity program.
Campbell is no stranger to Division I college basketball, as she was a letter winner at Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 2013-14 under Coach Nate Kilbert. The Monticello, Ark., native also served as a student manager for the UAPB men’s basketball program and head coach George Ivory. After graduating early and summa cum laude from UAPB in 2016, Campbell served as the marketing and branding graduate assistant for Golden Lions Athletics. She was able to work directly under the Senior Women’s Administrator Alyse Wells-Kilbert, who currently serves in the same role at Jackson State.
She earned her masters of law in sports law and business from Arizona State’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in August 2018. While earning her law degree, Campbell served the women’s basketball and softball team as student assistant and video coordinator, respectively. She is now pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership at Arkansas State. Campbell’s dissertation will investigate the educational experience of high-achieving academic students from low socioeconomic households. She will explore how those students are able to achieve success by looking through the lenses of social capital, economic resources, the intangible components of family cohesion, strong community mentors, and how culture influences their success. She also founded GOAT.ED, an organization that empowers all student-athletes to use sports as a vehicle to achieve success.
