Cathy Riggs

Assistant

Girls Varsity Softball

Cathy Riggs – Assistant Coach: Coach Riggs joined the Penn Manor HS Softball staff in 2013 as an assistant coach. She graduated from Mid Valley High School in Throop, PA where she earned numerous honors as league all-star for three years as a catcher, including All-Regional Player of the Year in 1991. Coach Riggs went on to play softball at DIII Misericordia University (Dallas, PA) where she was a three-year starter, team Captain for 3 years, and again earned numerous distinctions. Among her awards at the college level were ECAC Catcher of the Year, PAC Catcher of the Year, and ECAC and PAC All-Conference teams for 3 years. In the Fall of 2009, she was inducted into the Northeast Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Coach Riggs graduated from Misericordia in 1996 with dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Elementary Education and Special Education. She has completed graduate work in Special Education, Educational Technology, and Mathematics in which she earned Middle School Mathematics certification in 2005. Coach Riggs has been teaching at Hempfield High School, as a Learning Support teacher since 1996, where she academically supports students in all subject areas in grades 9-12. She started her coaching career at HHS as an assistant coach for the first 10 years and then took over as head Varsity coach for 5 years, leading those teams to LL League and District playoffs. When the opportunity to coach in the district her family resides in, Coach Riggs happily accepted the offer to join the PMHS softball staff. She and her husband, John, reside in Lancaster with their three children – Emily (14), Billy (11), and Brock (9).