Bishop Brossart High School announced on Wednesday that Paul Wiggins Jr. will not be returning as the head football coach.
Wiggins coached the Mustangs the past 10 seasons and after starting with just 21 players during the 2014 season, built the program up with three district championships in his tenure, including the program’s first ever in 2016. He finishes with a 67-43 record in the 10 years.
“On behalf of the Bishop Brossart Community we would like to thank Coach Wiggins for his dedication, commitment and drive to instill a winning tradition into the program over the years. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors,” the school released in a statement on Wednesday.
After winning just one game in Wiggins inaugural season in 2014, the Mustangs finished with a winning record seven of nine seasons after that, including back-to-back district titles in 2021 and ’22. They followed that up with a 5-6 record in 2023, runner-up in the Class 1A, 4th District. It was a fairly young team last season with just seven seniors on the roster.
“Loved coaching here,” Wiggins said. “We went 1-8 with 21 kids my first year here and I’d take those kids against anyone. Loved the boys, they had large hearts and wanted to succeed. Going from that to over 40 to 50 players and the growth is what I’m most proud of.”
Prior to his head coaching position at Brossart, Wiggins was the head coach of the school’s middle school program.
After every season, a year-end meeting is held and the school told Wiggins of their intentions.
“They told me how much they appreciated me and I just know they wanted to go in another direction, that was the extent of it,” Wiggins said, who expressed coaching elsewhere could be in his future. “I would not rule it out.”
The Mustang Athletic Complex was built in 2020 and the program has a pristine home field to play and practice on. Prior to that, they scrambled for fields to play their home games on varying from Campbell County Middle School to Scott High School to Thomas More University.
Facilities always help,” Wiggins said. “Think it goes without saying to call your place your home field rather going to other fields.”
The Mustangs had 44 players on the roster last season according to the KHSAA roster and will begin their second season in 2024 in the Class 1A, 4th District with Ludlow, Holy Cross and Trimble County.