IKE Pride

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 Frank was born in Racine, Wisconsin, and is a 1949 graduate of Washington Park High School in Racine. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1957. He received his Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1965.

Frank married Jean Carberry in 1957; they have 4 children Timothy, Therese, Patrick, and Brian. They have two grandchildren, Conor and Tyler.

He was varsity football coach at Eisenhower High School in New Berlin, Wisconsin, for 21 years – 1969 to 1990.

Frank began playing football in junior high school. He played for four years at Racine Park High School. He then attended Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, where he played a backup fullback position.

In 1951, he enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps. While in the Marines, he found time to play quarterback for the base football team in Nevada. He was discharged at the end of the Korean War and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He was the starting-quarterback for three years and won the conference title in 1954. He set records at the University as a quarterback, some of which have yet to be broken.

After graduating from La Crosse, Frank taught physical education at Waterloo High School in Waterloo, Wisconsin. He was the varsity football and baseball coach. Two years later, he moved to Mineral Point, Wisconsin, where he was varsity football and track coach. He and his family spent the summer of 1960 at the University of Wyoming working on his Master's degree.

In 1961, he moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin, to teach at Catholic Memorial High School. During his seven years there he was assistant football and basketball coach and varsity baseball coach. In 1967, Catholic Memorial won a baseball championship under his leadership.

In 1968, Frank began teaching physical education and coaching junior varsity football and basketball at New Berlin West High School in New Berlin, Wisconsin. The following year he became the first varsity football coach at the newly opened Eisenhower High School in New Berlin. At first, there were only freshmen and sophomores; then each year another grade was added. They competed on a varsity level during this building period. Eisenhower won their first conference championship in 1973. Subsequently, Eisenhower has won nine conference titles. They won five consecutive championships from 1985 to 1989. During his coaching career at Eisenhower High School, Frank had fifteen winning seasons, nine WIAA. Play-offs, and two Division Two runner-up finishes. Frank's football coaching record at Eisenhower was 84 wins and 33 losses.

Frank was honored in 1986 by being chosen as the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Alumni Coach of the Year. In 1988, it was his privilege to coach the South Team, at the Wisconsin Shrine All-Star football game.

Frank credits the many talented football players for making his football career so successful and so fulfilling. He also wishes to thank his wife, Jean, for raising, teaching and coaching their four children. He appreciates the encouragement and support he received from his children. Their help allowed him to pursue the greatest passion in his life, the molding of young men into football players. 

 Jeff was born to Francis and Barbara Setz in Waterloo on January 23, 1951. He was raised in this small city in Wisconsin and graduated from Waterloo High School in 1969. Setz was a two-way player for the Pirates football team, playing guard on offense and middle linebacker on defense. Jeff led the team in tackles during his senior year.

Setz continued on with his education by attending the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He majored in math­ematics and minored in physical education. Jeff graduated with honors receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education.

Setz was hired as a mathematics teacher at New Berlin Eisenhower High School in 1973. He started coaching football in the middle school football program. Jeff began his high school coaching career in 1976 working for five seasons with the Freshmen and Junior Varsity teams. In 1981, Setz was moved to the Varsity where he coached the offensive linemen. Jeff was promoted to Defensive Coordinator in 1983. He remained in those positions for seven years, and during this time, Eisenhower reached the WIAA State Finals at Camp Randall in Division II twice (1986 and 1989).

In 1991, Setz was named as the Head Football Coach at Eisenhower. During his fourteen years as head coach, Jeff led his teams to back-to-back WIAA State Championships in Division III (1995 and 1996) and back-to-back Woodland Conference Titles (2002 and 2003). He compiled a record of 100 wins and 48 losses and his teams qualified for the WIAA playoffs in eleven out of fourteen years.

Setz coached softball at IKE and as the Head Coach has won over 200 games. He also coached boys and girls basketball as an assistant, winning over 350 games.

Now that he looks back on his coaching experience, Jeff thinks he was pretty lucky to have been supported by such a great family, dedicated assistant coaches and talented student athletes. Setz ended up with a congratulatory e-mail from one of his former players stating the following: "I thank you for teaching me in football things that have helped me as a teacher, coach, husband, and father." Jeff believes that is what coaching football players is all about. 

Matthew Kern, a native of New Berlin, Wis., graduated from Eisenhower in 1995. Throughout high school, he participated in football, basketball and baseball. He played offensive and defensive line for Wisconsin Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame member, Jeff Setz. Following high school, he went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999 with a degree in marketing and management.

Matt began working for the Milwaukee Bucks in ticket sales in 2000 where he stayed for five years. At that time, friends convinced him to give coaching a try, so he began coaching in the New Berlin Generals Youth Football program the same year he started with the Bucks.  Not long after starting in the Generals Youth Football program, he was hooked.

Toward the end of his time with the Bucks, Matt went back to school to get a teaching certification and began his career in education as a marketing, business, finance and accounting teacher at West Allis Central High School in 2005.

Matt moved up through the ranks and became president of the Generals organization in 2008. From 2010 until 2013, he was the head coach of the eighth grade Generals football team. He continued coaching and running the Generals even after he moved from West Allis Central to Eisenhower in 2012.

When his high school coach, Jeff Setz, retired following the 2013 season, Matt applied for the varsity head coaching position. During his first two seasons as head coach, Setz was there to provide guidance, even serving on his staff as the offensive line coach in 2015.

In his 9 years as Head Football coach, Matt has an overall record of 68-28 (a conference record of 47-18 and playoffs of 11-7).  This also includes 2 outright Conference Champions, 2 Co-Champions, 7 playoff appearances, and 1 trip to Madison for the Division 3 State Championship.

As an Eisenhower classroom instructor, Matt is a business and marketing educator, as well as a DECA co-advisor in charge of all aspects of the DECA program.