Erin Crocker

Erin Mary Crocker Evernham, who raced as Erin Crocker, was born on March 23, 1981 and is an American race car driver and broadcaster with the Motor Racing Network's Winged Nation. She played soccer, tennis and varsity lacrosse in high school and college, but her main path ran through motor racing. She began racing quarter midgets at the age of seven, won three Northeast Regional Quarter Midgets of America championships between 1993 and 1996, and in 1997 became the youngest driver and the first female to win a race at Whip City Speedway in Westfield, Massachusetts. She started racing professionally in the World of Outlaws while attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, earned the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Outstanding Newcomer Award after winning five feature races in 2002, and in 2003 became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals. She later raced in the ARCA series and made her NASCAR debut in 2005 in the Busch Series at Richmond. She eventually moved to focus on building a family after beginning a personal relationship with her team owner Ray Evernham, whom she married.