RON
MACOSKO
ANNA ACKER-MACOSKO
Head
Coaches
email:
rpmacosko@schreiner.edu
Ron
and Anna are in their second full year
(third overall) as head
coaches for Schreiner Men's Golf and
have steadily and
significantly improved the program in a short period of
time, despite a very young roster of players.
This is Ron's second stint
as a college golf head coach.
He was the head men's coach (and
Director of Athletics) at Concord
University in Athens, WV from
1999-2002.
Ron took over a
very unsettled golf program in the
fall of 1999 and completely
transformed the team in one season.
Despite losing four of its top five
players from the year before, the
team finished second in the
conference and reached the NCAA
Tournament. In the classroom,
the transformation was more
dramatic. In two semesters, Concord Men's Golf
went from the lowest team GPA
on campus to
the highest. During his tenure,
Men's Golf finished either first or second in team GPA
every semester. On the course, Concord was a regional power. Concord finished in the top 3 in
the 15-team West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (WVIAC) each year, despite having one of the
lowest scholarship budgets in the league.
In his three seasons,
Ron coached 4 first-team All-WVIAC players. Ron has a Masters degree (MS
- Sports Management) from St. Thomas University (Miami,
FL) and and a BBA in Marketing from Ohio University
(Athens, OH).
For Anna, coaching and teaching are a career change but it
is still
very similar to her first "job". Anna was an NCAA
Division I All-American golfer at the University of South
Florida (Tampa, FL) and led the Bulls to a 4th place
finish at the 1991 NCAA Championships - still the
school's highest finish ever. She turned pro after
graduation (BS, Speech Communications) and promptly won
her first pro tournament. She retired in the summer
of 2005 after
a 13-year pro career - the last 10 as a member of the LPGA Tour.
Among her professional highlights is a 15th-place finish at
the 1999 U.S. Women's Open played at Blackwolf Run in
her home state of Wisconsin. She has had five
top-7 finishes in LPGA events, has won 11 professional
tournaments. In late 2004, she shot the second lowest round, 60 (-11), in LPGA history behind only Annika Sorenstam's
59.
That score also broke the LPGA record for lowest round ever shot in a final round (for
a more complete listing of
Anna's playing highlights, click here).
Even though retired, Anna qualified for and
played in her 8th U.S. Women's Open in the summer of
2007. Currently, she is Teaching Professional at The Club at
Comanche Trace in Kerrville.
The Macoskos came to Kerrville in
August, 2005 when Ron accepted the job of Director of
Athletics at Schreiner. Anna, Ron and Ben (3/23/01), live in Kerrville. |