University of Alabama Remembers Adaptive Athletics Pioneer Jessica Minton

University of Alabama remembers adaptive athletics pioneer Jessica Minton

The University of Alabama community is mourning the loss of Jessica Minton, a pioneer in adaptive athletics who helped lay the foundation for the university's women's wheelchair basketball program.

Mrs. Jessica Leigh Staley Minton, age 44, of Biloxi, MS, (formerly of Lindale)

 Mrs. Jessica Leigh Staley Minton, age 44, of Biloxi, MS, (formerly of Lindale) received her Heavenly healing on Tuesday, October 14, 2026, at a hospital in Atlanta, GA.      Jessica was born in Rome, GA, on August 31, 1982, daughter of Mrs. Jennie Swanson Staley Hines and the late Thomas Jerry “Tommy” Staley, Jr. […]