After graduating from the University of Tulsa in 1969, Tom Frohnapfel coached for two years at Geary, leading brothers Tom and David Brack to individual state championships. Both later coached state championship teams of their own. From Geary, Frohnapfel went to Tecumseh from 1972-74, before finding his coaching home in Broken Arrow. He served as the junior high head coach and as high school assistant coach for 31 years, from 1974-2005. During his tenure at Broken Arrow, Frohnapfel helped guide the Tigers to five straight state championships, from 1998-2002 and three consecutive dual state championships from 1998-2000. Among the many Broken Arrow athletes that he coached, state champions Bobby Crawford and Skyler Holman both earned NCAA Division I All-America honors, Crawford at Missouri and Holman for Oklahoma State. Frohnapfel also coached Steve Allen, an NAIA titlist at Missouri Valley, to a runner-up finish at the state tournament. Among his most memorable moments, in 1996, Broken Arrow won the unofficial junior varsity state championship. Two years later, those same wrestlers helped secure the school's first of five straight state titles. Frohnapfel was selected to coach the 1993 Oklahoma all-state team. For his dedication to the sport of wrestling, Tom Frohnapfel is honored with the Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award from the Oklahoma Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.