Reynolds Adds Jimmy Frankos to Wildcats’ Staff

EVANSTON, Sick. – Interim head baseball coach Josh Reynolds announced the addition of Jimmy Frankos to his coaching personnel as a volunteer assistant coach forward of the 2022 season this 7 days. 
 
“We’re really energized to have Jimmy join our personnel,” Reynolds claimed. “His encounter through higher education baseball, and in this position, will be a tremendous asset to our program. He has a excellent baseball mind and our college student-athletes are heading to appreciate doing the job alongside one another with him.”
 
Frankos most a short while ago served as a volunteer assistant at Iowa for the earlier three seasons as a hitting coach. Prior to his coaching stint in Iowa, Frankos invested time at Heartland Community School in Illinois, wherever he helped earn a MWAC Championship. Frankos was a three-12 months starter at Iowa from 2013 to 2016. 
 
Serving as the Hawkeyes’ hitting coach, Iowa’s offense ranked in the leading five of the Large 10 in 9 distinct groups in 2021, which include primary the league in doubles (93), triples (12), walks (243), on-foundation percentage (.385) and sacrifice flies (21) on their way to a college-record 26 Large 10 victories.
 
During Frankos’ initially season in Iowa Town, he helped Iowa earn 10 online games in the initially thirty day period, which include putting up victories above ranked foes No. eighteen Arizona, No. twenty North Carolina, and No. 14 Duke just before the season coming to an abrupt finish amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Prior to his time at Iowa, Frankos invested three seasons at Heartland (Illinois) Community School. He was an assistant coach in 2017 and 2018 just before becoming promoted to head coach in 2019. During his stint, the Hawks accrued 119 wins, which include a 34-twenty record in his previous season with the program.
 
Heartland won just one normal season MWAC Championship and completed runner-up in the 2018 Location 24 Regional Tournament.  During his three seasons, 29 college student-athletes went on to perform at the Division I level, which include a program record 14 in 2018.
 
Frankos also has coaching encounter in the Cape Cod Summer time League, wherever he served as an assistant coach for the Wareham Gatemen in 2017.  He worked with some of the nation’s leading hitters, coached 3rd foundation, and equally catchers he coached have been leading 10 round picks in the 2018 MLB Draft.
 
Frankos played for Iowa from 2013-16, wherever he was a three-12 months starter.  He completed his job with a .270 batting typical with a job-very best .313 typical in 2014.  Frankos was a workforce captain and Iowa’s receiver of the Large 10 Sportsmanship Award as a senior.
 
The Park Ridge, Illinois, native ranked tenth in the Large 10 in batting typical (.344) as a sophomore and he was a Large 10 Co-Participant of the Week in the course of the 2015 season.  During the 2015 campaign, the Hawkeyes won 41 online games — the 2nd most in a single season in program record — and highly developed to the NCAA Tournament for the initially time in 25 decades.
 
Frankos graduated from the College of Iowa in 2016 with a organization management and management degree and a slight in sporting activities experiments.