 ANNA ACKER-MACOSKO
RON
MACOSKO
Head
Coaches
email:
rpmacosko@schreiner.edu
Anna
and Ron have quickly built Schreiner Women's
Golf into a nationally-ranked program.
The Mountaineer Women's Golf team
competed as a team for the first
time at the ASC Championship
Tournament in 2009 and finished a
strong second place that year.
In 2010, Schreiner won the
championship title and became the
first SU team to play in the NCAA
National Championship Tournament
where the Mountaineers finished
14th. Anna and Ron were named
ASC Coaches of the Year for 2010.
While Schreiner WG is now recognized
for its recent success, both coaches
have much higher aspirations for the
team and its players in the years
ahead. In its brief
existence, two SU players have
earned
back-to-back First Team, All-American
Southwest Conference honors (Surraya
Minhas and Sarah Stillwell) and
seven players have earned All-ASC
honors to date. The Women's
Golf team also has established
itself as one of SU's strongest
academic teams with an eye towards
moving to the top there as well.
For Anna, coaching  and
teaching is
a career change but both are 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 D-I National Championships - still the
school's highest finish ever. She turned professional after
graduation (BS, Speech Communications) and promptly won
her first pro tournament (Futures Tour-Naples Open). 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 and 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. One of her
female students won the 2007 Texas
state TAPPS championship.
This is Ron's second stint
as a college golf head coach. He was the head men's
golf coach at Concord University
in Athens, WV from 1999-2002. Ron took over an
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 prior, the team finished second in the conference
his first year, reached the NCAA Tournament
and went on to make it to NCAA's
each year he coached the team. In the classroom,
the transformation was similarly dramatic. In two
semesters, Concord Men's Golf went from the lowest
team GPA on campus to the highest and maintained that
success throughout his tenure. 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).
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. |
