UCO has done very well, in fact her is just Coach James bio with the Bronchos heading into this year:

Now in his second decade of keeping the Central Oklahoma program among the nation's best is head coach David James, who has been with the Bronchos virtually uninterrupted since coming to Edmond as a student-athlete in 1976.

James, a four-time All-American and two-two national champion as a wrestler at UCO, enters his 23rd year at the helm as the winningest coach in school history with a stellar 252-84-5 career dual record against some of the top teams in the country.

He's captured 11 national championship with the Bronchos and has also had five runner-up finishes while earning six national Coach of the Year awards. James won NAIA Coach of the Year laurels in 1984, '86 and '89 and took NCAA II Coach of Year accolades in 1990, '94 and 2000.

D.J. has coached 43 national champions and 134 All-Americans at UCO and his career dual record includes an amazing 202-18-1 mark against NAIA, NCAA II and NCAA III teams. He has guided the Bronchos to 21 consecutive top-four national tournament finishes and 15 straight Midwest Regional titles.

James took control of the UCO program in 1982 and led the team to a fifth-place NAIA finish and 7-6 dual record that first year. The Bronchos asserted themselves the next year with a 11-5-1 dual finish and the first of four straight NAIA championships, winning by a 33-point margin.

UCO went back to the throne room in 1985, going 11-9 in duals and romping to the national title by 53 3/4 points. Central made it three straight in 1986, going 12-7 in duals and winning the NAIA title by a slim 7 1/4-point margin, and James' Bronchos made it four in a row in 1987 with a 20 3/4-point victory in the national tourney after a 12-5 dual season.

The championship streak ended in 1988 with a narrow runner-up finish after a 9-3-1 dual campaign, but James took UCO back to the top in its final year with the NAIA in 1989 with a 13-point margin of victory in the national tournament.

The Bronchos made the move up to NCAA Division II prior to the 1989-90 season and were runners-up in both 1990 and '91. The breakthrough season came in 1992 when UCO went 14-1 in duals and captured its first-ever Division II title.

The Bronchos won a second consecutive championship in 1993 while crowning three individual champions and UCO made it three in a row in 1994 with an overwhelming 61 3/4-point victory behind four champions.

James led UCO to its fourth consecutive crown in 1995 as the Bronchos rolled up 148 points, the second-highest point total in NCAA Division II tournament history. Central fell just short of a fifth straight title in 1996, finishing second with three individual champions, then was third in 1997.

The Bronchos had one champion in 1998 to place fourth, then crowned two national champions in finishing third in 1999. Another runner-up finish followed in 2000 and the Bronchos tied for third in 2001 while going 13-2-1.

UCO made it back on top in 2002, putting together a stellar 15-1 dual record and ending a six-year championship drought by crowning four individual champions in winning its 13th national team title.

James and the Bronchos repeated as title winners in 2003, going 18-1 in duals and finishing with three individual champions. UCO finished third with two individual winners last year, with Cole Province becoming just the 14th four-time national champion in college wrestling history.

James graduated from UCO with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1980 and spent one year as a UCO graduate assistant. David then served as an assistant coach at Edmond Memorial High School before becoming UCO¹s ninth head coach in 1982.

James ranks ninth on the school's all-time career won-lost charts with a 116-16 record. The Del City native was UCO's first four-time All-American, finishing third as a freshman and second as a sophomore before winning back-to-back NAIA national titles.

He was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame (Athlete Category) in 1988 and into the UCO Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Other UCO facts:

*Coach James was inducted into the DII Wrestling Hall of Fame this year as well.

*UCO has had 1 olympic wrestler: Duke Clemmons

*UCO was DI runner up back in the mid 30's.

*Former UCO wrestler Mo Lawal is an RPW member of the Oklahoma Slam.

*Former UCO wrestler Aaron Sweazy has wrestled 3 current members of RPW teams!