Frank Kolarik has been named the head coach of the Boston University women’s golf team. Kolarik joins the BU Athletics program with a vast amount of experience at the collegiate and professional levels.   

Prior to coming to BU, Kolarik was the head coach of the Boston College women’s golf team from 2002-04. Kolarik’s impact at BC was immediate. Under Kolarik’s guidance in 2003-04 the women’s scoring average improved by nine shots per round. With his first recruiting class in 2003-04, Kolarik’s team averaged a school-best 315.6 strokes per round. 

Over two seasons, he guided the Eagles to 14 top-three finishes. Highlights included a third-place finish in the 2004 Big East Conference Women’s Golf Championship and four tournament victories. The team set a new school 18-hole team record of 297 en route to winning the 2003 Rutgers Invitational. Boston College earned its highest national ranking in school history under Kolarik.

Kolarik has extensive teaching experience and in 2005 was the teaching professional at Waverly Oaks Country Club in Plymouth, Mass. He has coached some of the top young golfers in New England including a Massachusetts State High School champion, a New Hampshire Women’s Amateur champion and the 2004 Big East Conference individual champion. He was named the Big East Conference’s 2004 Coach of the Year.

A PGA Golf Professional, Kolarik was the general manager and head golf professional at the Patriot Golf Course in Bedford, Mass., a position he held for seven years. While at Patriot, Kolarik oversaw all golf course facilities and operations including teaching and instructional programs, tournament operations and golf course maintenance.

Kolarik has competed in numerous regional events including the New England Open Championship, the Vermont Open and the Massachusetts Open Championship.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1987. After graduation he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

Kolarik served a five-year tour of duty as an Air Force Officer. As an instructor navigator for the 42nd Air Refueling Squadron, Loring Air Force Base, Maine, Captain Kolarik was deployed to numerous location worldwide including Turkey and Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War.

He earned a Master of Science in Finance from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management in 1996 and currently resides in Cambridge, Mass.