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LIVINGSTON, Ala. --
The University of West Alabama Department of Athletics
has announced the hiring of Andy Greening as Defensive
Coordinator for the UWA Football Team. Greening has
served as a member of the Northeast Mississippi
Community College coaching staff for the past 10 years,
including the last five as the top man.
“We
are pleased to have Andy (Greening) as part of our staff
this season,” UWA head coach Bobby Wallace said. “He
brings tons of experience and coaching success with him
along with contacts from Mississippi.”
As
the head coach at NEMCC, Greening led the Tigers to
three Mississippi Association of Community and Junior
Colleges (MACJC) North Division Titles (2002, 2004,
2005). In the Hurricane Katrina-shortened 2005 season,
Greening coached Northeast to the only undefeated
regular season in school history (7-0), a national
ranking that climbed as high as number two, and to the
Pilgrim’s Pride Bowl Classic in Mount Pleasant, Texas
which was the first-ever bowl appearance for a Tiger
football team. In 2005 both the offense and defense
ranked in the top 20 in the country at season’s end.
Greening, a Corinth, Miss.-native, started coaching at
Northeast in 1998 as Defensive Coordinator on Coach
Laurin Collins’ staff and served in that capacity for
two more seasons under Coach Bobby Hall before taking
over as head coach in 2003.
Prior to his stint with the Tigers, Greening was a
successful head coach at Booneville High School, Amory
High School and Alcorn Central High School, all in
Mississippi. Greening attended Northeast, where he
played football, before receiving a Bachelor of Science
degree from Mississippi State University in Health and
Physical Education in 1979. He also earned a Masters
Degree from MSU in 1984. He became certified to work as
a school administrator in 1992.
Greening replaces former UWA Defensive Coordinator Sam
Graham, who resigned his position this spring to take
the same position at Oxford (AL) High School. |
