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Kandice Erwin became the Assistant Athletic Director for Internal Operations in 2011 after joining the SIUE athletic staff in August 2009 as an Event Management Operations Coordinator. Erwin has a wide variety of athletic experience, having most recently been the women's track and field head coach at the University of Dayton. Prior to Dayton, Erwin led the track and field and cross country teams at Texas Lutheran University to unprecedented success beginning with her arrival in 2001. In two years at Dayton, Erwin helped oversee dramatic improvements in the track and field program. Under her reign, 20 track and field school records were broken during the indoor and outdoor seasons. In addition, nine Flyers earned Atlantic 10 Conference honors. In 2007, the team earned All-American honors from the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Association (USTFCCA) for having a cumulative team grade point average better than 3.00. In her first year at TLU, Erwin guided the D-III school's cross country team to a third-place finish in the 2001 American Southwest Conference (ASC) Championships and the track team to second-place in the 2002 ASC Championships. Overall, Erwin guided Texas Lutheran Cross Country to three conference titles and was named the ASC Coach of the Year three times. She also led Texas Lutheran Track and Field to two runner-up finishes and one conference title, as well as being named ASC Coach of the Year. In 2005, she was named South Region Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. At Angelo State, Erwin was an athletic and academic scholarship recipient. She lettered four years and was a four-time qualifier to the NCAA Division II Track and Field National Championships. She earned All-American honors in all four years as a member of ASU's 400 and 1600 relays. She was named to the 1999 Lone Star Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll and was selected to the 1998 Academic All- Conference team. She was an honorable mention Academic All-Conference selection in 1997. Erwin earned a bachelor of science in kinesiology from Angelo State in 1999. She completed her master of science in kinesiology (also at Angelo State) with a perfect 4.0 GPA and finished her master's degree one year later. A native of Zephyr, Texas, she graduated from Zephyr High School as class valedictorian. She won three Texas High School Track and Field championships for Zephyr, winning gold medals in the 400, the 200 and the high jump. She also was a four-time state qualifier in cross country, a four-year letter winner in basketball, and a three-year varsity tennis player.