Bio

Franklin Cumberbatch won seven WIAC titles, including four individual, as a member of UW-Oshkosh men’s track & field program from 1980-83.

Cumberbatch attended Arima High School in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago, and made his presence felt on the UW-Oshkosh campus during the 1981 season, when he registered school-record times of 48.11 seconds in the indoor 440-yard run and 47.55 seconds in the outdoor 400-meter run. He held the 440-yard record until the event was discontinued in 1989 and the 400-meter mark until Ryan Powers broke the standard this past spring.

In 1983, Cumberbatch took first place in the 300-yard dash, 440-yard run, 880-yard relay and mile relay at the WIAC Indoor Championship and the 200-meter dash, 400-meter run and 400-meter relay at the WIAC Outdoor Championship.

Cumberbatch qualified for the 1981 NAIA Indoor Championship in the 440-yard dash, the 1981 and 1983 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships in the 400-meter run, and the 1982 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship in the 400- and 1,600-meter relays.

Cumberbatch lives in Shorewood, where he is in his fourth year as the Vice President of Engagement for Bader Philanthropies.

Cumberbatch currently coaches with the Milwaukee Mustangs Track Club and engages in numerous civic activities in the Milwaukee area.