Campbellsville Tiger Wrestling

Campbellsville University's first Head Wrestling Coach Franky James was born in Oklahoma in 1973 and graduated from Choctaw High School in 1992. James attended Carson-Newman College and received his B.A. in History in 1998. Coach James married Carrie Sexton and they have 3 children. Madison Taylor, 7, Macy Catherine, 3 and William Marcus who is now 1 year old.

In 1992, James was an Oklahoma all-state wrestler for Coach Benny Coleman at Choctaw High School. In college, James served as a captain on the 1993-94 NJCAA National Championship team and was national runner-up at 134 lbs for Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kansas. Coach James has also wrestled for Jack Spates and Mark Manning at Oklahoma University. At Carson-Newman, James was an 1998 All-American and worked as a graduate assistant under Hall of Fame coach Don Elia.

James started coaching at Carson-Newman and helped bring a top 5 nationally ranked recruiting class among non-division I schools. James has also helped coach two teams that finished in the top ten in the NCAA tournament.

Coach James then moved to UT-Chattanooga as Head Assistant and helped bring in a top 20 nationally ranked recruiting class. James then served as the Interim Head Coach at Chattanooga and guided the team to an undefeated season in the Southern Conference. James was named the conference “coach of the year.”

The Virginia Military Institute called James to assist with their program and in while there VMI won its first ever All-Academy tournament title. Under James, VMI also won the Virginia intercollegiate state title for the first time. While at VMI, Coach James had the pleasure of coaching two of the winningest wrestlers in school history, Adam Britt and Matt Erwin.

Franky James was hired to start the Campbellsville University Wrestling program in April of 2004 and will be entering the 4th season as CU’s Head Coach.

For more information on the Campbellsville University Wrestling program, contact Coach James at (270) 789-5148.

1st year as CU assistant coach. Quantal was a 2002 Southern Conference Champion at UT-Chattanooga and a Div. I National Qualifier. Graduated with his degree in Graphic Design and started his own company, Langfordesign.

He wrestled his high school career at Cleveland High School in Tennessee. He is married to Heather Langford and they have two boys.

Quantal is the head Assistant coach and helps with Strength/conditioning, promotions/marketing, coaching the upper weight wrestlers and recruiting.

This is his first year as an assistant and his top priority is to help with recruiting. Billy will work with the new Tiger team members. Billy was a member of the first Tiger Team in 2004 and was the first wrestler to commit to CU.

He made sure that the program got off to a good start and completed two good years for the Tigers by becoming a 2X National Qualifier and the East Region Runner up in 2005. Billy is a graduate of Choctaw High School in Choctaw, OK where he was a 2x state placer.

Will graduate from CU with his degree in exercise science. 1st year serving as an assistant coach. He was a national qualifier on a National Championship team at Dana college before transferring to CU and becoming a 2 year varsity wrestler and 2x National Qualifier at 125 pounds.

Is working with Tiger Wrestling Strength and Conditioning this year and getting great production of out our light weight wrestlers. Wrestled his high school career at Glades Central High School in Florida.

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