Columbia Stingers
American indoor football team
The Columbia Stingers were a team in the National Indoor Football League (NIFL) which played for one season, in 2007. The team played their home games at the Colonial Center, home to South Carolina Gamecocks 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.
“Columbia Stingers” enters the record as american indoor football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Columbia, Stingers and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Columbia Stingers” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Columbia, Stingers and American provides the most credible route into that argument.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5149852. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007.
A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Columbia Stingers”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Columbia Stingers primary sources, Columbia Stingers archive and Columbia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Columbia Stingers”?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Columbia Stingers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.