Faye Perkins - Head Softball Coach
March 8, 2005

Faye Perkins, the 1996 WIAC Coach of the Year, starts her 16th season as head coach of the Falcons softball team.

On March 28, 2004, Perkins posted her 300th win at UWRF when the Falcons beat UM-Morris, 9-1. With 312 wins at UWRF, Perkins is the winningest softball coach in the history of the WIAC. She also coached two seasons at Tarkio College and has a 355-296-1 career record.

Under Perkins the team continues to be one of the top powers in the WIAC and the Great Lakes Region. The Falcons won back-to-back WIAC championships in 1993 and 1994. The team also qualified for the NCAA Div. III playoffs in both those seasons. Perkins has led the team to seven WIAC West Division championships (2001, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1989). The Falcons have been nationally ranked in six of the last 15 years and had six straight seasons of 20 or more wins (1991-96). She led the Falcons to a school-record 28 wins in 1993. Perkins has coached 54 All-American Scholar-Athletes and her 1993-94 team had the second highest overall grade point average in all of Div. III fastpitch. Four of her athletes have won the WIAC Scholar-Athlete award. Perkins has coached 11 Regional All-Americans and 53 of her student-athletes have been named to All-WIAC teams.

Perkins is a firm believer in the basics of the game and teaches them to her athletes. She also believes that getting along together as a team (on and off the field), working, cooperating and having fun are keys to success. “Being involved in athletics is much more than winning and losing. It is learning about yourself and how to get along with others. Athletics can be an important part of a person’s educational experience. The lessons that you learn on the field can be just as valuable as the lessons learned in the classroom. I want athletic participation to be a positive learning experience for my players as well as for myself and the entire coaching staff,” Perkins said.

Perkins earned her B. S. in physical education and M. S. in exercise physiology from Iowa State University. As a Cyclone she earned nine athletic letters as a member of the softball, basketball and track teams. The softball team won the Big 8 Conference championship in 1976 and 1978 and Perkins was selected to the all-Tournament team at shortstop. In 2004, Perkins was inducted into the Iowa State University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Perkins earned her Ph.D. in Health Education from the University of Utah in 1992. She is a full professor and the department chair in the Health and Human Performance department.

Perkins is particulary proud of the fact that many of her former players are now coaching softball at the scholastic and intercollegiate levels. Some of these alumni include: Kim Zarling - Head Coach at University of South Dakota; Christine Stainer - Head Coach at UW-Stout; Jennifer Vick - Assistant Coach at UW-Stout; Nikki Fennern - Head Coach at St. Mary’s University; Amy Stenson - Hastings H.S.; Jody Porter Gabriel - Assistant Coach at UWRF; Anna Poulter - Assistant Coach at UWRF.

She is married to Joe McIntosh and has two sons, Paul (17) and Bobby (13). Family members also include two cats (Steek; Mr. Baxter). The family enjoys sports and outdoor activities such as roller blading, ice hockey, biking, horseback riding, camping, soccer and, of course, softball.

Perkins has taught in Scotland (1998 and 2001) as a part of the Wisconsin in Scotland program. She will be returning to Scotland, with her family, to teach in the summer of 2005.

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