Erin (Baldwin) Costa
Graduating class: 2008
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 2018
Hall of Fame Category: Athlete
During her time at Fairhaven High School, Erin Baldwin was an integral part of an emergence of excellence in both Girls’ Basketball and Volleyball. Erin’s four years at Fairhaven included conference championships in both basketball and volleyball and also deep runs into the state tournaments for each of those teams.
Erin’s Basketball Coach Dave Brogioli reflected that “Erin is a complete player. She can shoot, she can pass, she plays defense and she runs the floor. She played with a sore ankle all season, but she toughed it out and still ended up leading us in scoring. It was a pleasure to coach Erin. She has a tremendous work ethic and she’s a total team player. There is no telling what she could have done this season if she hadn’t been hurt.”
The Girls’ Basketball team earned the first South Coast Conference championship in the school’s history during Erin’s junior season. In that same season, Erin helped lead the team to the first ever appearance in the Division 3 South Sectional Final. In her senior year of Volleyball, her team also made an appearance in the Division 3 South Sectional Final, while also winning the South Coast Conference with a 22-0 record. Her senior season of Basketball also included a South Coast Conference championship and an appearance in the Division 3 South Semi-finals. Erin’s combined record for her four years of Varsity Girls Basketball was an impressive 72-26.
As staggering as the team accomplishments were for Erin her personal statistics in basketball were even more impressive. Erin was a four year starter for the Varsity Girls’ Basketball team and a three year starter for the Volleyball team. She was a four year South Coast Conference All-Star in basketball, and Erin was the Standard-Times Girls’ Basketball Player of the Year in both her junior and senior seasons. During her senior season of Basketball Erin averaged 15.3 points, 9.4 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 3.2 steals per game. At the conclusion of her senior season Erin also won the Dave Cowen’s Award given to the area’s best female basketball player. In the end, Erin finished with 1,466 points in her basketball career. The point total was enough to make Erin the all-time leading scorer in Fairhaven Basketball history, including both boys and girls