Colt Spivey To Lead Cougar Baseball Next Season

Colt Spivey’s coaching duties at Piedmont Academy have increased.

Beginning with the 2019 season Spivey will be the new varsity baseball coach for the Diamond Cougars. He succeeds Wes Tanner who is now the student minister for Monticello Baptist Church.

Spivey had been an assistant baseball coach for the past several seasons at Piedmont and has now been officially promoted to head coach, headmaster Tony Tanner said.

“I am excited about this opportunity,” Spivey said. “We have the majority of our roster back along with our entire pitching staff and starting lineup. When you have such a solid group coming back it gets you excited about the potential.”

Piedmont has won an unprecedented five GISA Class AA state championships in a row. While there will be challenges from various programs, the Cougars are certainly among the favorites to win it all next spring.

“I want to maintain the tradition we have,” Spivey said. “Our players have always played well and executed when they had to. The players take their approach to being successful as serious as I do.”

In looking ahead to the 2019 season, the coach said he is not planning to do anything radically different from previous seasons.

“We always try to play good defense and pitch well,” he said. “Nothing is going to change much at all.”

Currently Spivey is preparing for the 2018 fast-pitch softball season as he is also the head coach for the Lady Cougars. Spivey guided Piedmont to its first softball state championship in 2017.

A majority of the state championship softball roster also returns. Practice is now underway for the new season with the first home game on Aug. 8 against Eastside High School.

“We are further ahead at this point than we were last season,” Spivey said of the softball team.

“Our plan is to make another run at a state title. We have the pieces in place to do that.”

Softball players have been competing in summer leagues and have now united again as a team preparing for 2018.

“We had a great run leading all the way to the championship last season,” Spivey said of the softball program. “We will work hard to defend the title and continue that success on the field.”

The Lady Cougars will face a tough schedule for the upcoming season including games with several Georgia High School Association opponents.