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Growing up in Weehawken, Frank began his coaching career in a house league in Secaucus in 1981. He moved to Pershing Field in 1987 and started coaching travel hockey with the Jersey City Capitals. That same year, he began his high school coaching career at St. Peter’s Prep—his alma mater. He left in 1991 and later began coaching at Hudson Catholic High School in 1993, where he was teaching history. He remained there for 20 years and was an assistant coach on the 2000 state championship team.
In 2001, Frank took over as head coach and remained with the Hawks for the next 11 years, serving as both head and assistant coach. He stepped down in 2013. In 2015, he became an assistant coach at Xavier High School in Manhattan. He has been with the Knights for the past 11 years and was a member of the coaching staff that won two CHSHL championships—in 2016 and 2018.
Frank coached travel hockey with the Capitals until Pershing Field closed for renovations. He joined the Bayonne Rangers in 1995—where he met his wife, Debbie—and coached there until 2018. In 2022, he returned to coaching travel hockey, back where it all began with the Secaucus Patriots. Secaucus merged with the Cutting Edge King Cobras in 2024, and he has been coaching there for the past two years.
Frank has been a member of the executive board of the New Jersey Youth Hockey League since 1989 and served 21 years as president of the NJYHL (2005–2025). He has been a Congress Representative to USA Hockey from the Atlantic District since 2011. He is a member of the Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association Hall of Fame and was the recipient of the New Jersey Devils Dr. John J. McMullin Service Award to New Jersey Hockey in 2022.
Frank has also been a member of numerous scheduling committees with the NJIHL and other leagues over the years. He has been a teacher at Hudson Catholic High School in Jersey City for 32 years.
