Batesville native Bridget Goodnight is in her fourth season as head women’s basketball coach at Holmes Community College.

 

The Magnolia Heights School graduate played basketball for two seasons at Northwest Mississippi Community College and basketball and tennis for two seasons at Blue Mountain College. At Blue Mountain, she ranked third in three-point shooting during the 1994-95 season and first in free throw shooting in 1995-96. She was also involved in many extracurricular activities at both Northwest and Blue Mountain.

 

Her coaching and teaching career spans from high schools in North Mississippi including Southern Baptist Educational Center, Magnolia Heights School, Starkville Academy, Houston High School and also at Avoyelles Public Charter School in Louisiana. She was a graduate assistant coach at Delta State before serving as assistant coach at Henderson State University, Pensacola Junior College, Nicholls State University and Gulf Coast State College. She was head coach at Columbia State Community College and most recently at Judson College in Alabama.

 

Goodnight holds an associate of arts degree from Northwest, a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Blue Mountain College and a master’s degree in education from Delta State University.