Episode #65- Chanda Rigby, head women’s basketball coach, Troy University, Troy, AL

Chanda Rigby is entering her 11th season at Troy University in 2022-23. She has built the Trojans into the premier program in the Sun Belt Conference, winning five championships in seven years. Since taking over the program in 2012, Rigby has made Troy a perennial championship, and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament, contender. Rigby’s impressive resume includes seven 20+ win seasons, three Sun Belt Tournament Championships, two Sun Belt Regular Season Titles, three trips to the NCAA Tournament, six postseason appearances, 20 all-conference selections, five Sun Belt Post Season Award winners, a Sun Belt Player of the Year honoree and a Sun Belt Coach of the Year honor.

Before taking over the Trojan program in 2012-13, Rigby spent 12 years at the junior college level. She spent seven seasons at Pensacola State where she coached three Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-Americans as well as one McDonald’s All-American and four National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-Americans. She guided the Pirates to a combined 64-6 record over the last two seasons with two trips to the NJCAA Final Four and earned two third-place finishes. Before Pensacola State, Rigby led Holmes Community College to four straight winning seasons and spent one season at National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) member Tabor College where she transformed a last-place team into one of the top teams in the conference. Rigby began her head coaching career at Northwest Rankin High School in Mississippi in 1992 before returning to her home state of Louisiana to coach at Loranger High School from 1996-2000.

Rigby graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with a bachelor’s degree in English education in 1990 and a master’s degree in secondary education in 1998. She earned her doctorate in higher education leadership from Nova Southeastern University in July of 2017. She is married to Ed Rigby, a high school football head coach and Athletic Director. The couple has two sons, Ramsey and Randon.

Her contact information can be found here: https://troytrojans.com/staff-directory/chanda-rigby/178