A 20-year coaching veteran, Marsha Frese joined the Georgia Tech women’s basketball program as assistant coach in April 2025. She begins her first season with the Yellow Jackets in 2025-26.
Frese comes to The Flats after three seasons at Loyola University Chicago where she was instrumental in the program’s turnaround. In just her second season with Loyola, the Ramblers improved its win total by nine games, jumped seven spots in the conference standings and signed its first-ever Top 75 national recruit. Frese also served as the recruiting coordinator and academic liaison at Loyola, helping the program achieve a program best GPA of 3.59 in spring 2024.
Prior to Loyola University Chicago, Frese spent the 2020-21 season at San Diego State University after serving as the head coach for five seasons at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. While leading the Roos, Frese signed or coached five of the top 10 all-time scorers or rebounders in program history and guided the program through its transition to the Western Athletic Conference. The Roos also excelled in the classroom, leading Division I in team GPA for two consecutive years and earning WBCA Top 25 Honor Roll honors four times.
Frese also held coaching stops at Illinois and Northern Illinois and got her coaching career started working alongside her sister, current Maryland head coach Brenda Frese, at Ball State, Minnesota and Maryland. Together, the two laid the foundation at Maryland for multiple NCAA Tournament runs and Maryland’s eventual 2006 National Championship.
Named the state of Iowa’s high school player of the year in 1990, Frese enjoyed a standout playing career at Rice University, where she still ranks third all-time in career field goal percentage (.402) and owns the number two mark on the single-season three-point field goal percentage record board (.472). Frese earned her bachelor’s degree in communications from Rice.
Frese and her husband, Jason, are proud parents to two children, Kylan and Camden.
