Holly Kathios joined the softball coaching staff in the fall of 2021, after spending time on staff at her alma mater, Salve Regina, and with the Rhode Island Thunder Gold U18.Â
Her two seasons at Salve Regina were cut short due to the pandemic, but she utilized the challenge to expand her technics to communicate with the team and help build team unity in different ways. Working with the Thunder Gold, she gained experience working with high-level athletes. At both stops, she helped design practice plans and in-game strategies to help players reach their potential.
She was named interim head coach in 2021 when Salve Regina played a modified league schedule because of COVID-19. Her Seahawks erupted for nine runs with a record-setting five home runs in one frame to complete a sweep of Curry College on the road.
Kathios played collegiately at St. Rose as a freshman and spent three years at Salve Regina. As a captain with the Seahawks at SRU, she was named Second-Team All-Commonwealth Coast Conference and to the league's All-Academic Team. In 2019, she was seventh in Division III for toughest to strikeout, fanning just once in 123 plate appearances. In 81 games with the Seahawks, she slashed .275/.360/.365, scored 22 runs and drove in 43. She blasted her only collegiate homer in her final game against Endicott in 2019.
Kathios graduated from SRU with a bachelor's in mathematics and minors in education, and religious and theological studies in 2019. She earned her master's degree in psychology with California Southern's on-line program in May of 2022.
