Head Football Coach Darwin Franklin of Millwood High School has been named minority chairman by the Oklahoma Football Coaches Association.

The new position was approved at the Winter Meeting of the association.

Coach Franklin will in the position for two years.

He began his coaching career at Washington High School in Kansas City, Kan., as head freshman basketball coach and as a mathematics teacher.

A year later, he was named head varsity football coach.

The next four years, the team won three consecutive KCKL Conference championships.

In 2006, he joined the staff of Don Willis of Lakeview Centennial High School in in Garland, Texas, where he taught every level of mathematics, and served as assistant lead coach and offensive coordinator, among other positions.

In 2012, he became assistant head football coach and offensive coordinator at Centennial High School in Oklahoma City.

The next year, he was named head football coach and a mathematics teacher at Millwood High School.

Currently at Millwood High, Coach Franklin is a mathematics instructional coach, and is head football coach and assistant baseball coach.

He is a member of the national Institute of School Leadership and the Family Leadership Institution.

During his tenure at Millwood High, the football program has had a 99 wins and 25 losses, has had four state championship appearances and had undefeated state championships in 2016 and 2017.

He is a member of the Life Church (at Broadway and Britton Road) and works with the parking host program.

He and his wife (Courtney Franklin) have been married for 23 years, and they have two daughters (Makala Franklin and Joslyn Franklin), both of whom are students in the Millwood Public School District.