Clarion Athletics

Gregg Fritz, a PGA Golf Professional with over 30 years of experience, was named the Clarion women's golf coach on June 29, 2017.  He enters his seventh season at the helm of the program in 2023-24, and continues to grow and improve the program through recruiting and instruction.

In 2022-23 the Golden Eagles displayed progress despite a number of challenges, with the team largely playing its best golf at the end of the year. Sylvia Stibley won her second straight PSAC Champion Scholar honor, given annually to the student-athlete with the best GPA competing at that year's championship. The team finished eighth at the 2023 PSAC Women's Golf Championship, with Stibley tying for 23rd in the field with a two-day score of 176.  

Battling weather and environmental challenges throughout the entire Spring 2022, Fritz's Golden Eagles continued to improve as the season went on, shooting their best two rounds of the year in the final two rounds of the 2022 PSAC Women's Golf Championship. After carding a team score of 382 in the second round of play, Clarion shot a 365 on the final day of action, far and away the best round the team had ever recorded during Fritz's tenure. The team finished eighth in the conference that year while Sylvia Stibley earned PSAC Champion Scholar honors, given annually to the student-athlete with the best GPA competing at that year's championship.

The Golden Eagles had their best season in Fritz's tenure in Spring 2021, with the squad returning to action after a year away due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fritz's student-athletes recorded the lowest cumulative round score average of his coaching career, with the Golden Eagles improving by 25 strokes a round from the year before. The team also recorded two of the three lowest rounds of the Gregg Fritz era in Spring 2021.

Fritz spent 28 years as the head golf professional at Pinecrest Country Club in Brookville, where he developed a junior golf program that produced a local state champion as well as other collegiate golf athletes.  In addition to his duties managing membership and on-course activities, he developed a lesson program for members and instructed the Brookville High School girls' golf team.
 
Before landing at Pinecrest, Fritz spent roughly four years at various other clubs across the country.  He spent three years as the assistant pro at Greensburg Country Club (1985-88) and two at Bridgeport Country Club (1983-85) in Bridgeport, W.Va.
 
Fritz is a Class A Member of the PGA as well as a member of the Tri-State Professional Golfers' Association since 1983.  He has received the PGA of America Presidents Council for Growing the Game recognition.
 
He received his B.S.B.A. in Management from Slippery Rock in 1983, and currently resides in Brookville.