Bio

Kelly Frings begins her second season as a full-time assistant coach with the UW-Oshkosh women’s basketball team.

Last season Frings helped the Titans to a 20-10 record, the WIAC tournament title and a trip to the third round at the NCAA Division III Championship before the national tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Frings was previously an assistant women’s basketball coach at Carroll and Drury (Mo.) universities since serving as the director of basketball operations and a graduate assistant coach at Northern Illinois University. In 2018 Frings was selected for a Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Thirty Under 30 award, which recognizes up-and-coming women’s basketball coaches age 30 and under at all levels of the game.

Frings was an assistant coach in 2018-19 at Carroll University, where she helped with recruiting efforts. At Drury University, Frings helped the Panthers to a 61-7 combined record during the 2017 and 2018 seasons to go along with a pair of conference titles and two trips to the third round of the NCAA Division II Championship.

Frings’ prior experience also includes serving as a coach and recruiting coordinator at the Chapman Basketball Academy in Milwaukee as well as coaching stints with Wisconsin Impact and WBA Prestige in Milwaukee, and Heart of Illinois in Peoria.

Frings played basketball collegiately at Bradley University (Ill.) from 2010-14 following a decorated high school career at Pius XI High School in Milwaukee, where she helped the Lady Popes win the 2010 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 1 championship and garnered Sporting News All-America recognition.

Frings earned a bachelor’s degree from Bradley University in 2014 and a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University in 2016.

(4/9/2020)