Piedmont College Athletic Director Named Chair of NCAA Baseball Playoff Committee

Piedmont College athletic director and head baseball coach Jim Peeples has been named chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Baseball Championships Committee.

The committee of eight coaches is responsible for organizing D-III baseball championship tournaments across the country. Peeples has served as chair of the South Regional Committee and for the past two years, during which time Piedmont has hosted the NCAA South Regional tournaments in Demorest. He will serve a two-year term as Championships Committee chair.

Now in his 15th year as head baseball coach at Piedmont, Peeples was named athletic director in 2015. He is a graduate of Westminster College and received a masters’ degree in athletic administration from Slippery Rock University in 1991.