Education
At Springfield High School, he was a Division II All-State team member, team Most Valuable Player, first team All-District and All-Conference, lettered three years in football and volleyball, four years in soccer and two years in basketball.
He played college football at the University of Toledo where he majored in Mechanical Engineering.
France was a nominee for Lou Groza Award as nation"s best placekicker and he was the first Utah kicker to make first-team All-MAC since Bruce Nichols in 1988. He spent a season with the Rhein Fire of the now-defunct NFL Europa and played in World Bowl XI.