Wheaton College Athletics

Stephen Rigby was named a Second Team All-American by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) in 2005. In 2006 he was honored as the CCIW "Player of the Year" in men's soccer. He helped lead the 2006 Wheaton men's soccer team to the Division III National Championship Match as Wheaton was the 2006 Division III Runner-Up.

Rigby graduated from Wheaton in 2007 with Bachelor's degrees in Business/Economics and Theology. He was named a CoSIDA Academic All-American for his efforts on the field and in the classroom. He was a Third Team Academic All-American in 2005 and earned Second Team Academic All-America honors in 2006.

In his four seasons at Wheaton, Rigby had 28 career goals, with 20 assists. In helping Wheaton to the National Championship Match in 2006, he established career bests of 12 goals and eight assists that season. In Wheaton's playoff run he assisted on the game-winning goal in a 4-1 win against fourth-ranked University of Redlands in the first round of the tournament.

Today, Stephen and his wife Karis live in Nairobi, Kenya with their children: Abigail, Eoin and Isaac. He is the Team Leader with Serge in Nairobi, and Africa Director for Ambassadors Football.  Steve says of this role, "For 15 years I have been based in Nairobi connecting people to Jesus through the game of soccer. From the highest levels of the Kenya Premier League to grassroots soccer I love to envision, equip and empower people to grow as Godly, father and mother figure coaches in their communities."

He says of his experience at Wheaton, "The idea of KOPION is something that was firmly rooted in my life through my experience at Wheaton.  Working hard, striving for excellence, and doing that in submission to the kingdom of God is something that I still think about for my life and impacts the way that I lead others.  I got to practice that in community with my teammates at Wheaton and get to build teams of people that are doing that in the context of soccer ministry in Kenya."