Frank Johnson
Interim Athletic Director, Head Coach
Phone: 503-734-6463
Email:
fjjohnson@warnerpacific.edu
Frank Johnson was named head coach of the newly launched Knights men's and women's wrestling programs in January of 2014.
Johnson is well-known in Northwest wrestling circles and has enjoyed success at the high school and college levels as a head coach, and as an ambassador for the sport in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
Coach Johnson arrives from Forest Grove High School, where he has been head coach for the Viking wrestling program since 2002. He has guided the FGHS team to tremendous success, which includes two OSAA 6A individual state champions in 2007, and two more champions in 2010. Six of his wrestlers have participated in international competition, and Forest Grove hosted a team from Russia in 2011.
His college experience consists of a five-year stint as head coach at his alma mater, Pacific University, in Forest Grove, Oregon (1997-2002). Eight of his wrestlers achieved All-American status, and the Boxers won three regional team championships. The size of the men's squad tripled, and Pacific launched a women's program under his leadership. In 2002, seven women placed at the US Open Championships, and the Boxer team placed third overall.
Johnson is a long-time advocate for the sport of wrestling with 12 years of experience organizing wrestling clinics, camps, and goodwill competitions. These events have featured world class coaches and wrestlers from the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Russia. Further promoting the sport locally, he started and served as editor of Matside Oregon, a statewide newspaper for amateur wrestling.
Johnson also held head coaching posts at Kennewick High School (WA), and Henry Perrine Baldwin High School (HI).
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