Cumberland Today-Summer 01 - University of the Cumberlands

Stigall Steps Down as Baseball Coach
Cumberland College has announced the resignation of
Terry Stigall after 18 years at the helm as the head
baseball coach. Stating that his resignation was for
health reasons, Stigall says, “I feel that it is in the best
interest of the program for me to step down and allow someone
else who can give it their best to take over. I am just simply not
able to do it any more.”
Stigall, only the third baseball coach in the history of the college,
leaves Cumberland after a successful career with 502 wins and 298
losses for a winning percentage of .628. His 500th win came on April
4, as his team defeated the Georgetown College Tigers.
Stigall, a native of Danville, KY, came to Cumberland in 1971
to attend college and play for the baseball team. He graduated from
Cumberland in 1975 with a degree in health and psychology. He
served as an admissions counselor for the college and was actually
the college’s first softball coach before becoming the head coach of
the baseball team. Stigall later earned his master’s degree in education
from Union College.
“Having played at Cumberland under former head coach Walter
Mathes, it was an easy adjustment to make to become the head
coach because I knew the school and I knew the people. I have had
a great coaching experience because of the excellent standards that
have been established for athletics and academics. I have always
been proud to be a part of the Cumberland College athletic program
because of that,” says Stigall.
Stigall will remain as an instructor in the college’s Health,
Movement and Leisure Studies department.
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Patriot Pride:
A New Era for Cumberland Athletics
President Taylor made this announcement on May 7, 2001.
The Cumberland College Board of
Trustees has voted to change
our mascot from “Indians” to
the “Patriots” which is more
in keeping with our college’s architecture
and our city and the name Williamsburg.
As we change our mascot to “Patriots” we
hope to eventually build a replica of
Independence Hall as a business building and
a replica of Monticello as a science building as
funds become available. As funds become
available, we’ll perhaps rename our gift shop at the
Cumberland Inn the Dolly Madison room, for crafts,
doll making, quilting and pottery displays. As funds become
available, we could model a new dorm after the Christopher Wren
dorm, at the College of William and Mary. We will want to order two
additional larger flags, one for campus and one for the stadium.
Further instructive, our geographical area of Williamsburg has also
been involved in a great deal of early American history, and the school
wanted to reflect that in its mascot name. One
native of the area, who is buried not all
that far from the campus, Pierce Dant
Hamlin, was a very distinguished
Revolutionary War soldier, with an
impressive record of crossing the Delaware
and fighting with General George
Washington at Valley Forge. Today, we
proudly fly the flag; we have ROTC; our
college has produced four military generals,
an admiral and on and on.
Congressman Hal Rodgers tells me we
have the largest number of veterans in this congressional
district of any in the nation.
Over time I believe we could create more of an
emotional bonding through this Patriot theme, a continuity of
the past and hope for the future. The mascot change will take
effect immediately.
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