 ANNA ACKER-MACOSKO
RON
MACOSKO
Head
Coaches
email:
rpmacosko@schreiner.edu
Anna
and Ron are in their second
full year (third season overall) as
head coaches for Schreiner Women's
Golf and have big plans for the program.
In just two seasons - with a limited
roster - Schreiner Women's Golf
already has a player with
back-to-back First Team, All-American
Southwest Conference honors (Surraya
Minhas) and three very solid
returning players. This fall,
the Mountaineers have already
established themselves as contenders
for an ASC Championship.
For Anna, coaching and teaching are
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 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 s ummer 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
coach 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. 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. |
