Coaches

Coach Blake Thomas: Coach Thomas was a State Champion wrestler for Brentwood High School in 2009, he continued his wrestling career at University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Coach Rex Shotts: State finalist for Ravenwood High School who went on to wrestling for the University of Oklahoma. Former Coach at Nolensville HS.

Coach Phil Scruggs: Phil is a dad of two youth wrestlers. He is a former wrestler and is passionate about helping our youth.

Coach Russell Hoop: Russell is a former Brentwood High wrestler and also works with our Brentwood Middle School team.

Coach Cliff Terrell: Wrestled at Brentwood High School and Cumberland University. Now an assistant at Ravenwood HS.

Coach Mike Kuhl: Coach Kuhl was a high level wrestler in high school and a college wrestler at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. He then went on to coach high school in New Jersey for a number of years. He was instrumental in resurrecting a NJ HS team into a wrestling power. Coach Kuhl is an assistant coach at Ravenwood HS.

Coach Damon Smith: Head Coach of Brentwood High School. Coach Smith is originally from Ada, Oklahoma where he was an avid high school wrestler. He attended Oklahoma State University and was part of the 1994 NCAA National Championship Wrestling Team. Smith was the assistant coach at Father Ryan high school (Nashville) from 2007-2013 before taking the helm at Brentwood.

Coach Brody Faler: Head Coach of Ravenwood High School. In Coach Faler's 9 years as a high school wrestling coach, he has coached 23 state placers, 9 state finalists, 5 state champions, a number of club wrestling all-Americans, and 2 college all-Americans. He has also coached on multiple teams that placed in the top 10 in the state as a team. Coach Faler has been a weight training teacher, a math teacher, is a licensed attorney (in WA state), and a school counselor at Ravenwood High School.