Erica Zabkar enters her fourth season as an assistant coach at UNCG in 2011-12.

In Zabkar’s three seasons on the staff, the Spartans have posted a pair of top-three finishes in the Southern Conference standings.

In 2008-09, her first season, UNCG finished 15-6 overall and 8-2 in the SoCon, good for third place in the league standings. The Spartans reached the SoCon Championship semifinals for just the fourth time in school history and placed four student-athletes on the all-conference first team, with Alejandra Guerra taking the honor in singles and doubles. Guerra set a school record for singles wins that season, going 29-8.  

Despite a down year in 2009-10, UNCG still managed to put two players on the All-SoCon Second Team for singles, while its No. 3 doubles tandem also earned second-team accolades.

Zabkar helped UNCG to a huge turnaround in 2010-11, as the Spartans rebounded with a 15-7 mark that included a 9-1 SoCon record and a second-place league finish. UNCG reached the SoCon Championship semifinals for the second time in three seasons and had four players earn all-league honors, including Niltooli Wilkins, who was first team in singles and doubles and fell a win shy of Guerra’s school-record singles mark.

As a student-athlete for the Spartans, Zabkar was a four-year starter from 2004-08, earning first-team All-SoCon honors in doubles as a junior. She compiled an 84-49 record in singles play during her career, including a 20-11 mark as a senior in 2007-08.

Zabkar, who played everywhere from Nos. 2-5 in singles for UNCG, set what was then a single-season record with 23 wins as a freshman in 2004-05, then matched that standard as a junior. That mark, which was later eclipsed by Guerra, still stands as the school's mark for wins by a freshman.

The Atlanta, Ga., native graduated from UNCG with a degree in exercise and sports science in 2008 and finished her master’s in kinesiology in May 2011.