Hall of Fame
A native of Nashville, Arkansas, Spigner came to Southern State College in 1974 on the heels of pioneer head coach Dr. Margaret Downing’s 1973-74 Arkansas Women’s Intercollegiate Sports Association (AWISA) title and quickly became an important part of a Riderette Basketball program that would claim the AWISA Championship in 1974-75 and 1975-76, while finishing as league runner-up in 1976-77 and 1977-78.
During one of the most successful stretches of Riderette Basketball, Spigner helped the program compile a 72-20 record overall which includes a 20-3 campaign in 1976-77; a program record for wins in a single-season 43 years later and only matched by the 1987-88 Riderette team.
Spigner finished her career as one of only three players in the Riderette’s AWISA Era to be named to multiple All-AWISA teams as she claimed the honors in 1975-76 and 1976-77. In 91 career games, Spigner scored 981 points at 10.8 ppg which ranks 15th on the SAU Women’s All-Time Scoring List. Even more impressive is that Spigner’s career points total ranks sixth all-time in the non-three point shooting era.
As a junior in 1976-77, Spigner became just the seventh player in program history to record a 300-point season; finishing with 329 points at 14.3 points per game and in that same campaign, she and SAU Sports Hall of Fame teammate Janet Cooper-Wood (C/O 2012) became just the second duo in school history to post 300-point scoring seasons in the same year.
Rosemary is married to Magnolia native, Randy Cloud and the couple has two married children; son, Ryan Cloud and his wife, Britney who live in Greenville, South Carolina with their 2 young daughters and daughter, Robyn (Cloud) Lindsey and her husband, Kelly who live in Huntsville, Arkansas with their young daughter and are expecting another daughter very soon.  Currently, Randy and Rosemary own and operate a land surveying business that serves south and central Arkansas.
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