Entering her third season with the Hillsdale College coaching staff in the spring of 2022, Kylie Gross serves as the Charger softball team's pitching coach, among other duties.

Gross' move to Hillsdale in 2019 was the next logical step in her career, and her softball knowledge and recent experience at the collegiate level make her a valuable member of the Charger staff as Hillsdale looks to remain atop the Great Midwest Athletic Conference after back-to-back G-MAC tournament titles in 2018 and 2019, and NCAA Division II tournament appearances in 2018, 2019 and 2021. Already during her time at Hillsdale she's helped Dana Weidinger become the program's career leader in innings pitched, and one of only two players in Hillsdale history to win more than 20 games in a single season.

She came to the Chargers after a year-long stint as a graduate assistant at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota in 2018-19, following a three-and-a-half year Division I softball career at the University of Toledo from 2015 to 2018.

Gross started 59 games across three seasons and filled a variety of roles for the Rockets, starting ably in the outfield, finishing her career with seven doubles and two home runs at the plate, and making an impact on the basepaths, stealing 10 bases during her time at Toledo.

She also was a standout in the classroom at Toledo, twice making the Academic All-Mid-American Conference team in her three full seasons as a Rocket, and graduating with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Toledo in December 2017, with a focus on marketing and supply chain management. During her year at Black Hills State, Gross also completed a Master's of Science in Strategic Leadership.