Chanda Rigby - Troy University Women's Head Basketball Coach on giving glory to God
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Chanda Rigby is the head women's basketball coach at Troy University. Since taking over the program in 2012, Rigby has made Troy a perennial championship and 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, seven 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.
From 2019-2023, the Troy Women's Basketball team tallied the most wins of any Sun Belt men's or women's basketball team.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome to Sports Spectrum. We got a great conversation today, a really fun conversation with Shanda Rigby, who is the head women's basketball coach at Troy University down there in Alabama. Shanda is doing her thing in Troy. We'll just say that entering her 12th season this year, eyeing her sixth championship in the last nine years. |
| 0:22.6 | We're talking about perennial NCAA tournament contenders, perennial sunbelt tournament championships. |
| 0:30.6 | Shanda Rigby is a big deal in the world of women's college basketball. |
| 0:35.1 | 437 wins overall in 19 seasons, 209 at Troy, and like I said, |
| 0:42.0 | entering her 12th season. Today was really fun for me because I got to hand the baton over to my |
| 0:47.2 | colleague Cole Claiborne who writes for Sports Spectrum. You can read his stuff, you know, |
| 0:52.0 | in our magazine and fills in occasionally here on the |
| 0:55.5 | podcast. And Cole and Shanda and myself were at this Christians working in sports conference |
| 1:01.6 | earlier this year in 2023. And we're going to have another one in 2024. So if you are a Christian |
| 1:07.8 | working in sports, mark that on the calendar for late June. |
| 1:11.7 | You can look it up online and learn more. |
| 1:14.3 | But I got to meet Shanda and got to hear a little bit about what she was doing at Troy, |
| 1:19.3 | and I'm a fan. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm all in. |
| 1:21.0 | Like this woman is a big deal, living her life for Christ and leading and having success |
| 1:26.6 | in leading like Jesus. |
| 1:28.9 | So you're going to love this conversation. |
| 1:30.4 | It's coming up in just a moment with Cole and Shanda Rigby from Troy University, |
| 1:35.4 | their women's basketball coach. |
| 1:37.4 | First, I want to remind you about our Sports Spectrum magazine. |
| 1:39.9 | You can get it over at sportspectrum.com. |
| 1:42.2 | You can subscribe to a one-year subscription. |
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