Michelle Frew
HEAD SOFTBALL
COACH
 Michelle
Frew is closing out on a decade worth of coaching excellence with
the Tars softball program. Frew is in her second stint as head
softball coach at Rollins. She
previously served three years as the head softball coach at Rollins
from 1996-98 before leaving in 1999 to coach at Lely High School in
Naples, Fla. She returned to Rollins in 2000.
Frew
is closing in on two major coaching milestones, 300 head coaching
victories with a single program and 400 career victories. Coming
into this season, Frew has 276 wins with Rollins in nine years and
394 victories in her 13 year coaching career. She has had 30
wins or more in six of the past seven seasons and five straight.
In 2004, Frew led the Tars to a school record 42 win season and its
first ever NCAA Tournament appearence. That year the Tars also
finished with a final ranking of 18 in the national poll.
During
her first three years at the helm, Frew took a squad that had won
only eight games in the three seasons prior to her arrival and led
them to 84 victories. In 1998, the Tars posted a 34-13 record to finish
third in the Sunshine State Conference and earned Frew conference
Coach of the Year honors. She has also twice been honored by the Rollins
Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC) as the Rollins Coach of
the Year for her guidance of the softball program.
In
addition to her softball duties, Frew was an assistant women's basketball
coach at Rollins from 1995-98 and helped the Tars post two 20+ victory
seasons.
Prior
to joining the Rollins staff, Frew spent four seasons as the head
softball coach at Edison Community College in Ft. Myers. She was named
the Southern Conference Coach of the Year in 1995 after leading Edison
to a 39-13 overall record and 16-2 conference mark. Her overall record
at Edison was 118-83.
A
former two-sport star at Eckerd, Frew earned All-Sunshine State Conference
honors in both basketball and softball while playing for the Tritons.
She earned her bachelor's degree from Eckerd in May 1991 and her master's
degree in guidance counseling from Nova Southeastern.
Frew
and her husband, Steve, currently reside in Orlando and are the proud
parents of a four-year-old daughter, Erin Elizabeth. Frew also
recently gave birth to the second member of their family, Dylan Hunter
who was born on November 18, 2005.
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