The 2012-2013 season will mark the first year for Lee Glenn as Piedmont College’s Assistant Athletic Director for Communications. He will continue in his capacity as Director of Golf, a position that he has held since 2007.
In his new administrative role the 10-year veteran of the athletic department will oversee the school’s Athletic Communications department and staff and will handle all promotion, marketing, image branding and home game operations of the school’s 15 intercollegiate sports. Glenn is no stranger to the Athletic Communications field as he served as the Assistant Athletic Director for Communications for four years at fellow USA South school Methodist University before arriving on the Demorest campus in 2002.
During his tenure at Piedmont, he has serviced the college in various capacities including head men’s basketball coach, Director of Golf, head men’s & women’s golf coach, head men’s & women’s cross country coach, Sports Information Director and assistant men’s basketball coach. He garnered Great South Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors in two different sports – men’s basketball in 2011 and men’s cross country in 2002.
Glenn was ultimately responsible for the construction and implementation of the school’s athletics website (www.PiedmontLions.com) as well as the total rebranding of the school’s athletics logo and wordmarks in 2005. He also initiated the school's All-Acess live game coverage and social media platforms and serves as the in-game color analyst for the Piedmont College Basketball Radio Network.
In his nine years as the head men’s basketball coach at PC, Glenn tallied a 99-135 career record which places him second on both the school’s all-time wins and winning percentage lists over the entire history of the men's basketball program. He took the reins of the program in 2003 as one of the youngest NCAA head coaches and roamed the sidelines during PC’s entire NCAA Division III membership.
In additional to being named the GSAC Coach of the Year in 2011, his program mentored numerous academic and athletic achievements highlighted by a Josten’s Trophy finalist in 2008. Glenn produced one Division III All-American, one All-Region selection, one D3Hoops.com South Region Freshman of the Year, 15 GSAC All-Conference selections, two GSAC Players of the Year, three GSAC Freshmen of the Year, and 10 GSAC All-Freshman honorees.
His squads also claimed a pair of tournament titles during his tenure capturing both the 2009 New York City Tournament of Heroes title and the 2007 Roger Taylor Invitational championship during his tenure.
Glenn's teams were also clearly committed to academic successes in the classroom as he has produced 46 GSAC All-Academic candidates. In each of Glenn's nine years as head coach, his team produced the league's most All-Academic honorees of all the men's basketball programs. His program has produced 25 NABC Honors Court honorees and 40 GABCA All-Academic selections. Additionally, the men's basketball program carried a team GPA of over 3.0 for each of the 18 semesters under Glenn’s direction.
Glenn was very active in professional associations as he completed two consecutive three-year terms as the independent representative on the NCAA Division III South Region Ranking/Advisory Committee and has served as the NCAA representative as numerous NCAA Championship sites. He was also instrumental in developing and initiating the Georgia Basketball Coaches Association and served as Vice-Chair on the association's Executive Committee.
As Director of Golf Glenn aids the men’s and women’s golf programs both of which he started from the ground up beginning in 2003 including five years as the programs’ head coach.
In the summer of 2011, Glenn served a term on the operations staff of the UGA Stadion Classic which is a Nationwide Tour event in Athens, GA where he served as a front side hole captain.
Glenn served on the tournament staff for the 2009 NCAA Division III Men's & Women's Golf National Championship at the PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, FL where he coordinated scoring. It was the first-ever men's and women's same-site National Championship ever hosted simultaneously by the NCAA. In 2012 he aided with operations of the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Regional hosted by the University of Georgia.
Glenn also serves as the tournament director at two intercollegiate golf tournaments annually hosted by PC at The Orchard Golf & Country Club where he is an active member.
Glenn was responsible for initiating the Georgia Mountains Trophy, a rotating fall event that recognizes men's and women's small college golf in northeast Georgia and he also serves as tournament director for the annual event. He also co-chairs the Georgia Cup which recognizes men's NCAA Division III golf in the state of Georgia. He served the Great South Athletic Conference as the chair of the men's & women's golf coaches advisory committees and organized and directed the league's first-ever conference-sponsored championship in the spring of 2011.
In his eight years associated with the PC golf programs, the teams have produced six Golf Coaches Association of America/Srixon All-American Scholars, one GCAA All-Academic team award, a pair of NCCAA All-Americans, and one NCCAA Academic All-American. Under his supervision since 2003, the PC men's and women's golf programs have claimed 21 team championships and 23 individual medalist titles.
Glenn oversees the administration of both PC programs including tournament scheduling, team travel, and manufacturer’s relations. He is no stranger to successful collegiate golf as he promoted three NCAA Division III Women's Golf National Championships (1999-2002) as the Assistant Athletic Director at MU.
Upon his arrival on campus in 2003, Glenn also assumed duties as the Sports Information Director of the Great South Athletic Conference as was instrumental in getting the new NCAA Division III conference off the ground.
He carries active administrative professional development memberships in both NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) and CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America).
Glenn married the former Jocelyn Stallings in December of 2004 and the two reside in Clarkesville, GA with their dog Ivory, a deaf Great Dane. Jocelyn serves PC as the Head Athletic Trainer and the couple welcomed their first child, Hagen Graham Glenn, on December 31, 2007 and added their second child, Hadley Marie, on February 28, 2010.
