The Columbia Stingers were a team in the

National Indoor Football League The National Indoor Football League (NIFL) was a professional indoor football league in the United States. For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, A ...

(NIFL) which played for one season, in 2007. The team played their home games at the Colonial Center, home to

South Carolina Gamecocks The South Carolina Gamecocks represent the University of South Carolina in the NCAA Division I. The University of South Carolina uses "Gamecocks" as its official nickname and mascot. While the men's teams were traditionally known as the Fighti ...

basketball. The Coach for the Columbia Stingers in 2007 was Corey Miller, who played football for both the University of South Carolina and the New York Giants. Their Offensive Coordinator 2007 was Stephan Darby; Assistant Coach was Stacey Anderson; Specialty Coach was John Gill; Secondary/Strength Coach was Danny Samuel; Quarterbacks coach was Kent Merideth; and Speed coach was Anthony Washington. The team is now defunct. It remains to be seen as to whether there will be any other attempts to bring an Arena Football team to Columbia.

Season-by-season

, - , 2007 , , 1 , , 7 , , 0 , , 4th Atlantic , , --

External links

Press release announcing the teamfansite
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