PRINCESS ANNE, Md. — With a ring for every finger, five-time National Champion Kristina Frahm has decided to step down as the head coach of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) bowling team and return home to Illinois to work in her chosen field of accounting.

Frahm earned a degree in that field from UMES in 2011 and was the University’s Bernstein Award winner, the highest academic award the school gives. That same year she won the NCAA Elite 88 Award, the highest academic award given in each sport by the NCAA.  Just recently she completed her M.B.A. from Salisbury University.

Frahm is one of the most decorated persons in athletic history at UMES. As a player she won three National Championships, the NCAA in 2008 & 2011 and also won the USBC Collegiate Championship in 2011. She was a four-time All-America performer and a National Rookie of the Year. As a coach she guided the Hawks to another NCAA title in 2012 and another USBC trophy in 2013.

UMES will begin a National search immediately for Frahm’s successor.  The selected candidate will be just the fourth coach in UMES Bowling history.

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