Faye Perkins - Head Softball Coach
Jan. 16, 2004

Faye Perkins, the 1996 WIAC Coach of the Year, starts her 15th season as head coach of the Falcons softball team.

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 playoff champions 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 14 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 49 All-American Scholar-Athletes and her 1993-94 team had the second highest overall grade point average in all of Div. III fastpitch. Three of her athletes have won the WIAC Scholar-Athlete award. Perkins has coached 10 Regional All-Americans and 49 of her student-athletes have been named to All-WIAC teams.

The 2003 Falcons put on a strong push at the end of the season winning the last seven regular-season games. The Falcons finished 20-17 overall and 10-6 in the WIAC. UWRF placed third in the final conference standings.

In 2001 Perkins won her 250th game at UWRF and has a 289-248-1 career record at UWRF. She also coached two seasons Tarkio College and has a 335-267-1 career record.

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,” 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.

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

She is married to Joe McIntosh and has two sons, Paul (16) and Bobby (12). Family members also include their cat (Steek) and their two horses (Mr. B and Zippo). The family enjoys sports and outdoor activities such as rollerblading, ice hockey, biking, horseback riding, camping, soccer and, of course, softball.

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