Staff Directory

Emily Price

Title:
Assistant Coach

McCall Salmon announced the hiring of new assistant coach and pitching coach, Emily Price on Wednesday afternoon.

Price joins the staff after winning the championship with the Atlanta Smoke in the Professional Softball League as a pitcher.

After a standout career at Western Illinois, Price was the graduate assistant for Louisiana-Monroe for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.

Hailing from Charleston, Illinois, Price attended the University of Missouri Saint Louis in the 2020-21 seasons before transferring to Western Illinois to finish her career. During her collegiate athletic career, Price was named All-Conference in the Summit League after the 2023 season. After the 2024 season, Price ranked in the top 10 in the conference in:
Innings Pitched: 152.2
Strikeouts: 133
Walks Allowed: 39
Home Runs Allowed: 2
During that season, she threw a complete game shutout against SIUE and tossed nine complete games in her senior year, throwing in 35 of the 50 games the Leathernecks played. That season she also ranked 93^rd in the country with her 133 strikeouts.

While in college, Price was named to the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) Commissioners Honor Roll in 2023 and 2024, was a part of the Summit League Academic Honor Roll in 2022 and 2023, and a part of the NCAA Academic Honors Fraternity in the 2023 and 2024 seasons.

Price played professionally in Australia and Italy after her collegiate career and just finished her rookie season in the Professional Softball League. In the summer of 2026, Price threw 20.2 innings striking out 14 batters. Against the Chattanooga Chill, Price threw five innings striking out five batters.

At CMU, Price will inherit a bullpen with two returning arms in Brooklyn Compau and Aubrey Strelow. There are two incoming freshman pitchers in Kayla Blumenshein and Chloe Compau.

Last season, the Central Michigan pitching staff compiled a 4.71 ERA in conference play. Strelow led the team in MAC games with a 3.57 ERA and struck out 43 of the 128 her batters faced, holding opponents to a .236 average. Compau tallied 46 strikeouts against MAC opponents and 90 through the entire season.