{"id":11585,"date":"2023-06-29T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2023-08-31T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:25:13","slug":"russel-20-named-athletic-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2023\/06\/29\/russel-20-named-athletic-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Russel &#8217;20 named athletic director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Russell_Franklin-320x381-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Russell_Franklin-320x381-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11586\" width=\"160\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Russell_Franklin-320x381-1.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Russell_Franklin-320x381-1-252x300.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Franklin Russel &#8217;20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franklin Russel &#8217;20 <a href=\"https:\/\/northfortynews.com\/category\/business-education\/franklin-russel-named-as-new-liberty-common-high-school-athletic-director\/\">has been named <\/a>as the next athletic director at Liberty Common High School in Fort Collins, Colorado. He will oversee coaches and direct all athletic programming aspects at the junior-high and high school levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franklin has been the LCHS physical education instructor since 2020 and served as the first head coach of the new LCHS men\u2019s and women\u2019s wrestling team during the 2022\u20132023 academic year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While at Wabash, he majored in political science and minored in Classics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was an independent, a member of the Independent Men\u2019s Association, Sphinx Club, Wabash Acts Responsibly Council, and Student Senate Activities Committee. He competed for the Little Giants in wrestling and lacrosse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franklin Russel &#8217;20 has been named as the next athletic director at Liberty Common High School in Fort Collins, Colorado. He will oversee coaches and direct all athletic programming aspects at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":11586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Russell_Franklin-320x381-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11603,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions\/11603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}