Maryville University Athletics

Maryville University head softball coach Courtney Conley has announced the Emily Crane will join the Saints staff as an assistant coach for the softball program. Crane comes to Maryville after a stint as a volunteer assistant coach at her alma mater, the University of Missouri, last season. She is also playing professionally for the Chicago Bandits in the National Pro Fastpitch Association. 
 
Crane graduated from Troy Buchanan High School, where she helped lead the Trojans to a state championship in her senior year. She earned first team honors in each of her four years at Troy and was named the Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year in her senior campaign.
 
While at Missouri, Crane became only the third Tiger in program history to earn First Team All-American honors with a .404 batting average and tied a single season record with 64 runs scored in her senior season. She was also named to the All-SEC First Team and the SEC All-Defensive team in both her junior and senior seasons in Columbia.
 
Crane also excelled in the classroom by being named to the first team of the CoSIDA Academic All-American team and she also earned SEC Academic Honor Roll accolades while at Missouri.
 
Crane was drafted seventh overall in the second round of the 2016 NPF Draft and was traded to Chicago in the winter of 2017. She posted a career-best .326 batting average and stole eight bases in 2018. Crane has a .961 career fielding percentage and has stolen 24 bases in her time as a Bandit.