Thank You Frank!

6/9/2021 10:00:00 AM

UIS Golf coaching legend Frank Marsaglia announced his retirement last month. The Prairie Stars look back at the career of one of the top coaches in UIS Athletics history.

Frank was hired as the UIS men's golf coach in the late 2000s, and was tasked with the challenging job of taking a newly-established program to the NCAA Division II level. In 2012-13, he also took over as the head coach of the UIS women's program. Both teams quickly rose up the GLVC standings under Frank, and became one of UIS's most consistently top programs at the NCAA level.

Men's Accomplishments:

840 Head-to-Head Victories
Nine Tournament Victories
Advanced to two GLVC Match Play Semifinals (2015, 2016)

Women's Accomplishments

512 Head-to-Head Victories
16 Tournament Victories
Five Straight GLVC Third-Place Finishes (2016-2021)

NCAA Postseason Success

Four Straight NCAA Women's Golf Regional Appearances (2016-2019)
Highest Women's Golf Regional Finish - 5th (2017)
The most NCAA postseason appearances among all UIS sports teams

Talon Supak

First UIS golfer to advance to the NCAA Division II National Championships (2016)
Won the 2016 NCAA Midwest/Central Region
First All-American in UIS golf history

Jennifer Queller

First UIS women's golfer to qualify for the NCAA Division II National Championships (2019)

Frank Marsaglia's True Impact

Frank's true impact at the University of Illinois Springfield was not the trophies, postseason appearances, and other successes from the golf program. It was the influence he had on the UIS and Springfield communities, the Prairie Stars Athletic Department, and, most importantly, the approximately 100 golfers that went through his program at UIS. Click the video below to hear from just a few of those that he touched.