Jonathan Coachman

Jonathan Coachman (born 12 August, 1973 in Kansas City, Missouri) also known as "The Coach" is a professional wrestling play-by-play announcer and occasional wrestler working for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand.

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12 August - 1973 - Kansas City - Missouri - Professional wrestling - Announcer - World Wrestling Entertainment - RAW

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Before embarking on an announcing career in professional wrestling, Coachman was a highly touted basketball prospect. After two state basketball championships at McPherson High School, Coachman moved across town to continue playing for McPherson College. During his four years at McPherson, Coachman became the school's career scoring, rebounding and assists leader. He was also named McPherson's Athlete of the Year twice and was named conference Player of the Year twice.

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Basketball - McPherson High School - McPherson College

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While at McPherson, Coachman's interests included participating in theatre, serving as the sports editor for the school newspaper, and doing play-by-play and color commentary for the local football and basketball radio broadcasts.

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Sport - School newspaper - Football - Radio

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Coachman first made his way in to the WWF (now WWE) he was an interviewer, commentator, and presenter, making a shocking heel turn against Shane McMahon at a PPV event. Since then he has had an on-screen roll as the "lackey" to the General Manager of RAW, Eric Bischoff, and the host of the RAW Diva Search 2004 & 2005. He also hs his own column in the RAW Magazines called "Coach's Corner" and remains very unliked by many superstars and fans alike. Recently, he's started a radio show on WWE.com called "CoachCast"

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Heel - Turn - Shane McMahon - PPV - Eric Bischoff - RAW Diva Search - 2004 - 2005

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Coach officially became the third member to the WWE Raw broadcast team and signed a multi-year contract with WWE in 2005.

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