Azle Hires Anna's Offensive Coordinator As Next Head Football Coach

Wilson Rigg has been named nan Head Football Coach astatine Azle High School.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area schools announced nan move connected Jan. 20, hiring nan adjunct caput coach and violative coordinator from Anna.

“I americium highly thankful for nan opportunity to service astatine Azle ISD,” Rigg said. “This is simply a awesome organization pinch a beardown tradition, and I americium excited for my family and I to go a portion of it. My extremity is to thief create young men into beardown leaders while competing astatine a title level.”

Rigg will switch Devon Dorris, who stepped down successful November aft 23 years coaching and 16 years arsenic nan Hornets’ caput shot coach. Since his resignation, Dorris was hired arsenic nan diversion head of Wichita Falls ISD.

Azle went 2-8 past year, but was 7-4 successful 2024. The Hornets had winning records successful 5 of nan past 8 years.

Riggs had been pinch Anna since 2021, having seen nan squad triumph much than 10 games 3 times during that span. The Coyotes won nan Class 4A Division I title successful 2023.

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The past 2 years, Anna has been successful Class 5A Division II and has been 19-7 successful that span pinch a brace of location semifinal berths.

Rigg’s coaching stops besides see clip astatine Lubbock Coronado and Midland Legacy (Lee) and Augustana College, a Division II program. He was nan protect statement coach astatine Augustana successful 2015 earlier heading to Texas.

After coaching astatine Midland Lee, he joined Seth Parr’s unit astatine Lubbock Coronado. He past followed Parr to Anna.

According to nan Azle property release, Rigg helped orchestrate immoderate of nan apical offenses successful nan nation, coached a Gatorade Player of nan Year, helped create dozens of student-athletes who went connected to play collegiate shot and was a personnel of District Coaching Staffs of nan Year connected 4 abstracted occasions.

The background

Rigg played precocious schoolhouse shot astatine Palmyra, a mini municipality successful Northeast Missouri.

According to a story successful nan Quincy Whig-Herald, nan All-Clarence Cannon Conference violative lineman turned down an connection to play astatine Virginia Military Institute to go a preferred walk-on for nan Missouri Tigers.

Rigg, an all-state subordinate arsenic well, was connected nan Missouri roster successful 2010 and 2011 and was portion of a Big 12 North championship.

He near Columbia, transferring to Lindenwood University successful St. Charles and yet to Culver-Stockton College. He was a three-year missive victor and an world All-American astatine nan Canton, Missouri, school.