Former Vol named Coach of the Year

A former Vol has been named Coach of the Year.

Former Vol Jon Higgins has been named District 4-AAAA Coach of the Year. Higgins serves as Farragut High School’s head coach in Farragut, Tennessee.

He guided Farragut to a District 4-AAAA regular-season championship in 2021-22.

Higgins played for the Vols from 1999-2003.

He began his high school coaching career as an assistant at Fulton High School in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The former Vol had his first head coaching job at Knoxville Central High School. He took over as Farragut’s boys basketball head coach following the 2016-17 season and became the boys and girls golf head coach in 2019.

He guided Farragut to the 2020 Large Schools Division state golf championship.

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