Chambers High hires new football coach, getting an assistant from a rival school
The next head football coach at Chambers High School will be familiar with the two-time state champions.
Brandon Wiggins, who has been an assistant at Mallard Creek the past two seasons, has been hired to lead the Cougars.
At Chambers, Wiggins will replace Glenwood Ferebee, who coached the team for three seasons.
Chambers has made four straight N.C. state championship appearances. Aaron Brand took the Cougars to the 2018 N.C. 4AA state championship game. Ferebee led Chambers to the finals in 2019, and twice in 2021 — the COVID spring and fall seasons.
Ferebee’s team won the 2019 and spring 2021 state championships, the first two in school history. He resigned last December, shortly after the nationally ranked Cougars were upset by Cardinal Gibbons in the fall state final.
Wiggins, a Greensboro native, will be Dean of Students at Chambers as well as head football coach. Before working at Mallard Creek, he was head football and track coach at Greensboro’s Smith High School. In college, he was a four-year starter at Elon University, where he played linebacker.
He and his wife, Brandee, have one child, 2-year-old Braylee. A son, Brandon Jr., is due this spring.
He’ll take over a Chambers team that has made seven straight N.C. 4AA or 4A Western Regional championship games and returns more than half of its starters from the 2021 team.
This story was originally published January 26, 2022 at 9:52 AM.
