Frank Waters

Frank Waters

Frank coached basketball at Avon for 21 years, from the fall of 1995 through spring of 2016. His first two years were spent as JV coach where he posted a win-loss record of 36-0. For the next nineteen years he served as the varsity coach compiling a record of 378 wins and 95 losses with thirteen NCCC league championships, twelve NCCC tournament titles, and the CIAC Class M state championship in 2008. During those years he coached nine all-state players and five 1,000 point scorers. in addition, his won won the IAABO sportsmanship award in 2000, 2005 and 2014.

Frank grew up in Orange Massachusetts and graduated from Mahar Regional High School in 1966. While there he played varsity football, basketball and baseball and in 2013 he was inducted into the Mahar Sports Hall of Fame.

he is a 1970 graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut where he also played football, basketball and baseball. He played wide receiver and defensive back on Wesleyan’s last undefeated football team in 1969- a team that won the ECAC’s Lambert Cup and was inducted into Wesleyan’s Athletic Hall of Fame. For that season Frank was named to ECAC’s Division II All-East Team and won Wesleyan’s C. Everett Bacon Award Which goes to the player contributing most to the team’s success. Some years later we was named to Wesleyan’s all-decade team for the 1960’s. In baseball Frank won the MacNaughton Award for outstanding achievement in 1970 and 2024 was inducted into Wesleyan’s Baseball Hall of Fame.

Frank and his wife of 51 years Janet, have lived in Avon since 1976. They have two adult children, Jody and Tyler, who both graduated from Avon High School and played various sports while there. Frank owned an insurance agency in west Hartford for many years, but these days spends his time playing lots of golf and fantasy football and enjoying his three grandchildren. He also wrote and published his first book. A Drumstick for Thanksgiving Please is a World War II Waters family saga.