Devoted Coach Helps Turn Troubled Girl Into State Wrestling Champ
North Dallas High School female wrestling champ Kymber’Lynn Jackson. (credit: CBSDFW.COM)
DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – Robbie Owens – A year ago, Kymber’Lynn Jackson was angry, annoying — her words — and savoring bad choices. “I used to like getting in trouble,” the North Dallas High sophomore said with an incredulous laugh. “I used to like getting in trouble!”
Then one fateful day, the school’s first year wrestling coach, Cortney Billingsley, spotted her in the hallway, and recruited her on the spot. “I saw a natural athlete,” he said. “A natural athlete that needed an opportunity to prove everybody wrong.”
