At one point and time, Janie Wiggins thought she might be an accountant.
After one college semester, she realized it wasn’t her calling and decided to do something she felt she would enjoy – physical education classes and coaching sports.
People are also reading… Wiggins is currently going into her second season as head volleyball coach at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College.While coaching, she was a member of the AHSAA Volleyball Committee for 18 years and was named the Dothan Eagle Coach of the Year six times. She was named the National Federation of High Schools State Coach of the Year in 2007 and received the AHSAA’s Bubba Scott Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.
“So in my freshman year in college, I changed my major to teaching physical education and I knew I wanted to coach. I played all three sports, but my passion was always volleyball.”Her love of sports began at an early age as she grew up on a farm in the small Coffee County community of Ino, just northeast of Kinston. She said she always had some sort of ball in her hand, usually throwing one at a wall or serving volleyballs over the family clothesline.
“She had Judy Green come in, Becky Dickinson and others come in,” Wiggins said, referring to legendary high school coaches in the state at the time. “She would have all these coaches come in and they were always really encouraging to me and encouraging me to play at that level. Two years later, she returned to her alma mater at Kinston as assistant volleyball coach under Rhoades, a role she held two years before taking over as the Bulldogs head coach in 2000, which started a 20-year head coaching career there and at Enterprise before retiring after the 2018-19 academic year.
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