Frank Windegger - Football, 1957
1982 TCU Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee
Frank Windegger's career in collegiate athletics began the first day he set foot on the TCU campus as a freshman, nearly 60 years ago. While at TCU, Windegger excelled at baseball and was the university's first baseball player to have his number retired. He also played football for the Horned Frogs before graduating in 1957. After a two-year stint in the Army, Windegger returned to TCU and joined the coaching ranks. In 1959, he was selected as assistant ticket manager and assistant baseball coach. Three years later, he was named ticket manager and head baseball coach. As its coach, Windegger led the Horned Frogs' baseball team to four Southwest Conference (SWC) championships and six second place finishes. In 1972, he was honored as the SWC and NCAA District VI Coach of the Year.
While serving as baseball coach, Windegger also held the position of business manager of athletics (1965-74) and assistant athletics director (1967-74). A year after stepping down as baseball coach, Windegger was named athletics director in 1975, a position he held until his retirement in 1998. Windegger was inducted into the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1982, a class that also included Dr. James Cash, Ronald Clinkscale, Drew Ellis and Johnny Hall. He has also been inducted into the NACDA Athletic Directors Hall of Fame.
Over the years Windegger served on numerous councils and committees including a term as president of NACDA in 1990-91. He was also on the NCAA Baseball Committee (1970-72), NCAA Voting Committee (1979-82), NCAA Men's Final Four Basketball Committee (1981-88) and the NCAA Council (1990-93), where he was the first and only athletics director to represent the Southwest Conference. Windegger was also involved with the College Football Association (CFA), Division 1A Athletics Directors Association, Final Four Foundation, College Basketball Issues, College Football Issues, Division I-A Athletics Directors Television Committee, SWC Executive Committee and the SWC Men's Basketball Tournament Committee.
