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Macomb’s Frantz named to fill
tennis coaching vacancy at MC
Release Date: August 18, 2006
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Macomb resident
Kerry Frantz has taken over the head coaching position for the
Monmouth College women’s tennis team, and he will welcome his first
Fighting Scot team to campus later this month.
Since 1998, Frantz has served as the minister for Covenant
Presbyterian Church in Macomb, and he will continue in that role.
Frantz, who was the boys and girls tennis coach at Macomb High
School in 2005-06, has also served as a private coach, summer
instructor and Western Illinois University tennis camp assistant.
“We are really pleased to add an individual with the qualities of
Kerry Frantz,” said athletic director Terry Glasgow. “He will add a
boost to our up-and-coming women’s tennis program, and we’re excited
to have him as part of our athletic family at Monmouth.”
Frantz is a 1983 graduate of Northern Illinois University and has
also received degrees from Wheaton College Graduate School and
Trinity Divinity School.
He will take over a program that went 5-5 in dual meets last year
and placed fifth in the 10-team Midwest Conference. Several players
return from that squad, including his daughter, Cassie, who compiled
a 9-5 record at No. 3 singles.
Frantz said he hopes to teach “aspiring tennis players to learn the
mental, physical and competitive components of the game of tennis
and to foster an environment and culture of tennis to benefit
present players” and recruits. He also hopes to “involve the
community with the tennis program.”
Women's Tennis
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