Glenn Eichstedt enters his sixth season as the Madison College golf coach after being hired in April 2018. Eichstedt brings an extensive coaching and teaching background with him after nearly 40 years at the high school level. He will be assisted by his son and Madison College Athletic Communications Director,
Adam Eichstedt.
In his first season as head coach, Eichstedt led the WolfPack to the 2018 Region IV Championship and was named Region 4 Coach of the Year. It earned Madison College the school's seventh team trip to the NJCAA Division III National Tournament, where they finished 11th. Freshman Brent Schmiesing was an individual national tournament qualifier in 2023 and finished 24th overall. The program moved up to NJCAA Division II competition for the 2023-24 season, and Eichstedt led the WolfPack to second place at the Region 4 Tournament, earning an automatic bid and a 17th-place finish at the NJCAA Division II National Tournament. Eichstedt has coached one NJCAA All-American, two Region 4 Tournament medalists, and 15 all-region players.
Eichstedt was hired as the Yourth Golf Director at Cherokee Country Club in Madison, and remains active with TPC Wisconsin.
Most recently, Eichstedt has spent the past several years as a youth golf director at Kettle Hills Golf Course in Richfield, Wisconsin, and with the YMCA of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He has organized and run numerous youth camps for golfers ages 18-and-under, as well as provided individual instruction. Eichstedt has kept busy on the course working numerous national events in Wisconsin, including three PGA Championships, two U.S. Women's Opens, two American Family Championships, one U.S. Open, one U.S. Senior Open, and one U.S. Junior Open.
Eichstedt spent 27 years coaching high school golf, beginning with three years at Lomira High School and followed by 24 years at Kewaskum High School, the last 17 of which were as the head coach. In 1989 and 1990, he guided the Lions to fourth-place finishes at the WIAA State Golf Tournament, and qualified two individuals for the WIAA State Golf Tournament when coaching the Indians. In all, he led his teams to five regional titles and one conference championship. He was named the 2016 East Central Conference Coach of the Year.
In addition to golf, Eichstedt was a highly successful high school basketball coach of boys and girls teams at Abbotsford High School, Lomira High School, and Kewaskum High School for 27 years, 15 of which as a head coach. He won one conference championship and four regional titles. In 1990, Eichstedt was named the Eastern Wisconsin Conference Girls Basketball Coach of the Year, and was selected to coach the 1997 WBCA Division 3 South All-Stars. During his years as an assistant, he was part of one conference championship, two regional titles, and one sectional championship, as he and his son helped the 2000 Lomira Lions reach the WIAA Division 3 State Tournament for the first time in school history.
Eichstedt was also an assistant football coach and a head girls tennis coach, winning two conference titles and a conference coach of the year award as the latter at Kewaskum.
Aside from coaching at the high school level, Eichstedt spent time in the classroom, teaching numerous social studies courses for 35 years until his retirement in 2013.
During his college years, Eichstedt attended and played basketball at UW-Eau Claire (1972-73) and UW-Oshkosh (1974-76), earning two academic all-conference awards. He graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Broadfield Social Studies. In 1997, he earned his Masters Degree in Curriculum & Instruction from the National Louis University.
Eichstedt is a 1972 graduate of Kewaskum High School, where he competed in football, basketball, golf, and baseball. Overall, he earned 10 varsity letters and six all-conference awards. He was twice named the league's Defensive Player of the Year in basketball after leading the conference in rebounds and steals.
Eichstedt currently lives in Edgerton, Wisconsin, with his wife, Jackie. Away from golf, he enjoys spending time with his three kids and six grandchildren, and rooting on the Badgers, Packers, Brewers, and Bucks.
