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Coach Pigg is a highly respected middle distance and distance coach. There is no better example of this than his peers voting him to the 1999 Pan American Games Coaching Staff.
Pigg's Highlights
- 1999 Pan American Games Assistant Coach
- 1995-96-97 Midwest Region Coach-of-the-Year
- Lead MU to the 1995-96-97 Midwest Region women's team title
- Coached Derrick Peterson to 2 NCAA national championships
- Led 20 athletes to All-American honors
- Guided 21 athletes to conference championships
Missouri assistant coach coach Jeff Pigg is in his tenth year at the University of Missouri. Coach Pigg has a long history of excellence as both an athlete and coach with the Tigers. After returning to Missouri in 1990 to assume the coaching duties of the distance runners, including cross country, there was immediately a noticable change in this area at MU. Pigg not only coaches the middle distance and distance runners, but he also coaches the Tigers nationally ranked cross country teams.
Since 1995, Pigg has accomplished what few others have in a lifetime, winning three consecutive women's NCAA Region V championships and finishing as high as 15th at the 1997 women's NCAA National Championships. All told, his men's and women's teams have 16 Top 4 finishes at both the conference and regional championships in his tenure at Missouri.
On the women's side his teams have finished no lower than 22nd in the countrysince 1995, while his men's team made it back to the NCAA Championships for the first time in 21 seasons in 1998.
Pigg has earned NCAA District V Coach-of-the-Year honors three consecutive years (1995-96-97). Under Pigg's guidance, Missouri has had some of its best individual and team finishes at the NCAA championships.
In ten years with the Tigers, Pigg has coached 20 All-Americans, 21 conference champions, two cross country Big 12 champions and three Region V champions. He has also developed Tiger relay teams that have won titles at the Drake, Kansas and Florida Relays through the years.
History was made duirng the 1998 season for Mizzou, as Pigg coached both the men's and women's teams to the NCAA Championships for the first time in school history.
The Rogersville, Mo. native has strengthened the Missouri cross country team's position both in the Big 12 Conference as well as in the national ranks. His runners have consistently earned All-Conference and All-Region honors in fall competition.
A further testament to his coaching excellence, coach Pigg was asked to serve as an assistant coach for the USA Track and Field team that competed at the 1999 Pan American Games in Alberta, Canada.
"It was just an honor to be nominated," Pigg said. "I feel really fortunate just to get the experience. Knowing that my peers voted me in was probably the highlight of the whole experience."
As an athlete, Pigg earned All-Big Eight honors five times in his two years competing for the Tigers. In 1985, he set a conference record in the 1,000-yard run and was an NCAA All-American in the event.
In 1986, he left Missouri to finish his collegiate career at the University of Florida where he earned two All-America awards and eight All-Southeastern Conference nominations. He also won the SEC indoor mile twice and still holds the conference championship record in the mile run. After the 1987 TAC National Championships, Pigg was ranked 10th in the United States in the 1,500-meters after placing fifth at the championships.
He also finished in fourth place in the Olympic Festival in 1987 and went on to compete at the World University Games in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
Pigg graduated from Florida in 1988 with a degree in health and human performance. He began his coaching career at Gainesville High before entering the collegiate ranks at his alma mater in 1989. As a member of the Florida staff, he worked with numerous All-Americans and helped guide Florida to a second place team finish at the 1989 NCAA Indoor Championships.
Coach Pigg is an avid fan of NASCAR auto racing and enoys racing motorcycles. He and his wife Vicki reside in Columbia with their daughter Olivia, 4, and son, Cole, 2.
