Katy (Morrow) Stigers is responsible for building the Virginia Intermont women's soccer program in its reincarnation. This year  will be a recruiting year so competition can begin in 2012. This is her first head coaching position after a number of years coaching at the club level.

Coaching Experience: Stigers has been coaching others almost as long as she has been playing the game herself. Professionally, she has coached for club teams and at camps in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. She served as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in 2002. She holds a USSF "C" license and is a member of the NSCAA and USSF coaches' associations.

Playing Experience: She was a four-year starter at King College in Bristol, TN for coach Matthew Yelton (currently head coach at 3-time national champion Lee University). In 2001she was an NSCAA All-American and NAIA All-American and Academic All-American. Stigers was the only NAIA women's soccer player named to both lists in 2001.  As a captain, she led her team to the Region XII Tournament appearance finals in the program's fifth year of existence. She was a three-time all-conference selection for the Tornado. After college Stigers continued her soccer career as a player on the U.S. Amateur Soccer Association Region III team in 2002, and won a silver medal at the U.S. Soccer Festival in Houston, TX.

Stigers was also a four-year starter at national soccer powerhouse Parkview High School in Lilburn, GA. At Parkview she captained her team to a state championship as a junior and a state final as a senior. She was also a club state champion and MVP of the Georgia Open Cup in 1996. In 1997 she was Gwinnett County Player of the Year and in 1998 named to the Georgia senior all-star game. She played for several years on the Georgia Soccer Olympic Development Program team.

Education: Academics have always been a high priority for Coach Stigers. She graduated from King College with a double major in History, and Political Science (BA magna cum laude), and earned an M.A. in Urban Affairs from Saint Louis University (St. Louis, MO) in 2007. She is currently a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in political science at Emory University.

Personal: She is married to Peter Stigers, operations director at Washington County Habitat for Humanity. They have two children (Nell, 4, and PJ, 2) and a Labrador retriever named Hope Solo.