JACKSON -- Millsaps College athletic director Tim Wise announced today the hiring of Drew Ziegler, who will join the Majors' women's soccer staff for the 2009 season as an assistant coach and will also help out with the campus' intramural program.

Prior to Millsaps, Ziegler spent two seasons with the Jackson Futbol Club (2007-08) and three years with the Clinton Futbol Club (2005-07) where he coached youth club soccer.

A three-year letterwinner at cross-town rival Mississippi College for head coach Kevin Johns and one-year letterwinner at Charleston Southern his freshman year, Ziegler was a four-time all-conference selection and two-time all-region nod on the playing field. He also played for the JFC for six years.

A native of Clinton, Miss., Ziegler is the son of Merle and Kim Ziegler and has a younger brother, Jared and an older sister, Jessica. He recently received his degree from Mississippi College in December of 2008 in exercise science and would eventually like to work his way into a head coach position in the college ranks.