Millennium’s Diggs wraps up exceptional track career
By Griffin Fabits Mar 25, 2018
At 5 years old, when most young boys become infatuated with toy cars and train sets, Aidan Diggs said he had his sights set on the National Football League.
Now a Millennium High School senior, Diggs is coming off an impressive four-year stretch of varsity athletics, including track and field this spring.
As a Tiger, Diggs has played football, wrestling, baseball and track. His freshman year, he juggled all four in the same school year.
Incredibly impressive, yes, but overwhelming? Not in Diggs’ eyes.
“It’s just always been like that for me,” he said. “Wrestling was something else, but I’ve always been in football, baseball and track since middle school. I got used to just competing all the time. It’s just a way to stay busy, basically. It’s just part of my routine. I always have practice and it just keeps me in a routine.”
Diggs’ name is a familiar one. Aidan is one of seven siblings and the youngest boy to don the purple and black.
He has followed in the footsteps of older brothers AJ, Aaron and Andrew, all of whom paved the way to Aidan’s success.
“With my family all being sports and literally the whole household being accomplished in sports, you see yourself competing everywhere,” he said. “I was basically born into the sport of football, and then I got into track.”
On the football field, Diggs excelled on both sides of the ball. Playing three seasons at the varsity level, he totaled 2,876 yards and eight touchdowns as a wide receiver and racked up 99 tackles and three interceptions as a defensive back, according to Maxpreps.com.
Diggs admitted that track, despite being neck-and-neck with football as his favorite sport, has been the most he has accomplished outside of the classroom at Millennium.
“I already have three records and freshman year, I broke the decathlon record,” Diggs said. “Sophomore year, I was just growing, doing the decathlon, and then junior year I got hurt but I only had a month to train and I ended up getting third in the state decathlon. Then I broke our record again and then I also got the long jump record at the school and the four-by-four.”
He holds the Millennium record for the decathlon, long-jump and four-by-four events.
A resume like Diggs’ will certainly garner the attention of college scouts. He has received offers from Arizona Christian University, Ottawa University and Phoenix College, with intentions of continuing to play at the next level.
While he is busy wrapping up his legacy as a Tiger, he is writing the final chapter of the Diggs boys’ Millennium story.
He balked at the idea of how he wanted to be remembered at Millennium, instead spinning it to represent he and his brothers.
“I think it’s not mostly about Aidan Diggs,” he said. “I think it’s more about the Diggs family. AJ and Andrew, they both wore No. 42 and were amazing defensive players, and then Aaron. Me and him wearing No. 7, being more of the skills players, getting out there around the field.”
“I think the biggest thing I want them to remember is, just how we didn’t talk the talk, but we definitely walked the walk. We didn’t like to talk, we liked to be humble, but we liked to go in there and get the job done.”