Rodney Minggia joins the Bethune-Cookman staff in the 2009-10 season as Lady Wildcats' Recruiting Coordinator, and newest assistant coach to Vanessa Blair's staff. Minggia is familiar with the Lady Wildcats program, having most recently served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Stetson University under Women's Head Coach Dee Romine, where he aided in the mentoring and development of Tierra Brown, Atlantic Sun Conference All-Freshman team guard.

Minggia's career is built on a solid foundation of experiences that will help him excel in Bethune-Cookman's program, with a long list of coaching and teaching positions in his nearly thirty-year career. Prior to Stetson, he worked with students in the Newton County Schools Crossroads Psychoeducational Program in Covington, Georgia, coming off stints as head coach of the Tennessee Fury and Atlanta Justice of the National Women's Basketball League.

While teaching, he also spent time coaching the Georgia Metros AAU team, which finished with three top-four national performances during his time there, including AAU National Championships in 2006 and 2007. He previously coached the Metros from 1984-1989, winning the national title in 1985. His experience and success in AAU earned him induction into the Georgia AAU Hall of Fame in 2005.

His previous coaching stops at the collegiate level have endowed him with a variety of experiences, bringing a great deal to the table at Bethune-Cookman. Minggia served as an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at Northeastern Illinois (`96-`97). Before that, he served as Head Women's Basketball and Volleyball Coach at Paine College (`91-`96), where he was honored as the 1994 SIAC Coach of the Year. Before that, he was on the staff at UAB (University of Alabama Birmingham) as an assistant women's coach, in '90-'91 he helped lead the Blazers to a 24-8 record and Sun Belt conference regular season title, and was the Head Women's and Assistant Men's Coach at Georgia Perimeter College ('85-'90); During his three-year tenure, the women's program went 51-33 and finished third in the Georgia Junior College Athletic Association each year.

Coach Minggia got his start as a successful high school coach and educator. At Gordon High School in the DeKalb County school district from 1979-1985, he coached the boy's basketball team, which earned back-to-back runner-up finishes in the region (1981-82), while the track & field teams he coached won state championships in 1982 and 1985 with five regional titles and four other top-three finishes in the state. During his tenure as an assistant football coach, GHS went 24-4. Minggia taught at another DeKalb County school, Stephenson High School, from 1997-2003.

Minggia is a 1979 graduate of Georgia College and State (Milledgeville, Ga.) with a degree in Health and Physical Education.