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    Abe Kiggins     
     
      Abe Kiggins
Position:
Assistant Athletic Trainer

Abe Kiggins is in his third year full time and his fifth year overall working with the cross country/track & field teams. In his spare time, he treats elite level runners, such as Olympians Hazel Clark, Jearl Miles-Clark and DeeDee Trotter and U.S. champion Treniere Clement. He traveled with Trotter to the 2006 and 2007 USA Outdoor Championships, where she won silver and gold, respectively, and to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials (bronze) and Olympic Games (semifinalist) in Beijing. Kiggins graduated from the University of West Florida with a bachelor's degree in exercise science/athletic training. While at UWF, Kiggins worked with the men's and women's soccer teams and the baseball and softball teams. He also covered football and a variety of other sports through local high schools and interned with the Pensacola Pelicans baseball organization. Kiggins earned his master's degree in sport psychology at UT in May 2007.