Mitzi Williams Grogan, 2019

Mitzi is a 1980 graduate of GHS.  She played basketball all 4 years in high school and volleyball for 3.
Competing at championship levels is well-known to her.  Here's what her 4 years of basketball shows:
  • Freshman year (1976-77) -- Record 27-5.  Robertson County Invitational Championship, District 9-AA Champion, Region 5-AA Champion and advancing to the sub-state.
  • Sophomore year (1977-78) -- Record 23-6. Won the following championships: Shelbyville Holiday Tournament, Volunteer State Conference Tournament, District 8-AA regular season and tournament.
  • Junior year (1978-79) -- Record 27-5. Robertson County Invitational Championship and the District 8-AA Tournament.
  • Senior year (1979-80) -- Record 27-1 with an undefeated regular season and ranked #1 in the state. District 8-AA and Region 5-AA Champions, advancing to the state tournament before losing in the finals.  Mitzi was selected to both the All-District and All-Region Teams.
Mitzi was a member of the inaugural volleyball team at GHS in 1977-78. That team won the District Tournament and she was selected to the All-Tournament team. Her junior year, the team finished with a record of 32-4, won the District Tournament, and she was again selected to the All-Tournament team. In her senior year, the team made its first appearance in the State Tournament in school history and she was named to the All-District team. 
She received at athletic scholarship in volleyball to attend Middle Tennessee State University, where her senior year she was named All-OVC Student Athlete of the Year.
After college, Mitzi returned to GHS as head volleyball coach for the next 12 years.During her tenure, they won 6 District Championships, 1 sectional championship, and in 2000 her team won the the State Championship while piling up a school-record 39 wins.
She served as an assistant principal at GHS from 2005-2008 and principal at Greenbrier Elementary from 2008-2014.