USA South Administration
Commissioner
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President
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Assistant
Commissioner
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Rita Wiggs is currently in
her 12th year as the full-time Commissioner of the USA South
Athletic Conference. Wiggs served as part-time Commissioner during
the previous year in addition to her teaching duties in the
Cumberland County (N.C.) School System. The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro graduate also holds a masters degree from
North Carolina State University. Wiggs served as Director of
Athletics at Methodist University for seven years and President of
the Dixie Conference in 1997-98. During her tenure at Methodist,
she coached the women’s basketball team for 13 years. Wiggs also
served as sports information director, women’s golf coach,
assistant professor of physical education and chair of the physical
education department during her career at Methodist. Prior to
arriving at Methodist, Wiggs was a teacher and coach in the
Cumberland County School System, an assistant basketball and head
softball coach at North Carolina State University and head
basketball coach at Roane State Community College. Wiggs is a
member of the UNC-Greensboro Athletics Hall of Fame, Methodist
University Athletics Hall of Fame and the Fayetteville Sports Hall
of Fame.
Jackie
Myers is currently in
her first year as President of the USA South. Myers
serves as Director of Athletics at Meredith College, a
position she has held since 2002. Myers came to Meredith after nine
years as the women's basketball coach and assistant athletics
director at Geneva College in Pennsylvania. Previously, Myers was
the women's basketball and tennis coach at Elon College and held
the same duties at Pfeiffer College. She was inducted into the Elon
College Sports Hall of Fame in 1990 and is also a member of the
Eden, North Carolina, YMCA Sports Hall of Fame. Myers also serves
as the College as an assistant professor in the Department of
Nutrition, Health and Human Performance.
Mike Christie
is currently in his seventh
year with the USA South
after joining as the Sports Information Director in July of
2006. In January of 2008, Christie's
title was changed to Assistant Commissioner. He was the Assistant
Sports Information Director at Rhode Island College in Providence,
R.I. and also served as the Director of Communications of the
Little East Conference the previous two years. The year prior
to becoming the Assistant Sports Information Director at Rhode
Island College, he served a year-long internship in the
institution's media relations department. Prior to Rhode
Island College, he completed another year-long internship in the
athletic media relations department at Providence
College. A native of
Ocala, Fla., Christie graduated from the University of Florida in
December 2002 with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sports
sciences with a focus in sports management and a minor in business
administration.
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