Coaches

Kandi Krebs

Allen University and Director of Athletics Phillip Wallace Jr. announced the hiring of Kandi Krebs as the Yellow Jackets’ new head softball coach on November 22, 2024


“On behalf of everyone at Allen University, we are very excited to welcome Coach Krebs to Columbia,” said AD Wallace. “We are looking forward to her leading our program to a winning pedigree.”


Krebs arrives at Allen after a coaching career that has spanned more than two decades. She began her coaching career as a Graduate Assistant Coach at Prairie View A&M University from 2002-2004. From there, she became an assistant coach at Mississippi Valley State University from 2004-2005, UNC Pembroke from 2005-2006, and at Kansas City University from 2007-2008.


Krebs stepped away from the college game after 2008 to raise her daughter, Dee, and began offering pitching lessons in her community. As a result of her lessons, 100% of the players she taught went on to play at the collegiate level.


“It is not often that when a coach leaves the college ranks that they get back in, especially after 15 years,” said Krebs. “I want to thank President McNealey, AD Wallace, and Assistant AD Haywood for this opportunity. Most of all, I thank God for putting the right people in my path. Finally, I am thankful for the support of my daughter, Dee, and her dad, Chad Gilbert.”


Her accomplished coaching career includes 35 all-conference selections and three all-Americans. While at MVSU, she coached the first All-Region pitcher to ever be selected from an HBCU.


“Greatness is in the details,” Krebs added. “You have to do the little things to make big things happen.”


In recent years, she has served as a pitching coach for one of the largest club teams, KC Rebels, in the Kansas City, Kansas area.