Trey Pearce enters his third season on staff with the Lions in the fall of 2025 as associate head baseball coach. He joined Piedmont in the fall of 2023 as an assistant after spending a year as a volunteer assistant at LaGrange College in 2022 and serving as an assistant coach at LaGrange High School in 2023.
Zeke Swartz highlighted the 2025 season becoming the first-ever first team All-American (D3baseball) as well as an ABCA/Rawlings All-American, D3baseball Region Pitcher of the Year and CCS Pitcher of the Year. Ben Connelly earned CCS Rookie of the Year for the Lions as well.
In his first season with the Lions, Piedmont posted 25 wins including a 12-6 mark in conference play. A total of five Lions earned all-conference honors in the CCS while Piedmont had three All-Region honorees and a Gold Glove winner in senior
Trace Cate.
His familiarity with the Piedmont program comes after his own playing career at LaGrange College from 2019-2021 which included two USA South Tournament Championships. During his athletic career, Pearce was twice named the USA South Defensive Player of the Year (2019 & 2021) and was a 2021 USA South West Division first-team selection.
The Panthers posted a 34-7 mark in USA South play during his career and totaled 68 wins over his three seasons (including the 2020 Covid-shortened year). Pearce appeared in 88 contests for the Panthers including 40 in 2019 where he posted 47 hits, 38 RBI and was walked 27 times. He totaled over 100 hits in his career (104) with a .325 career batting average.
As a volunteer assistant coach at LaGrange in 2022, the Panthers once again won the USA South Tournament and advanced all the way to the NCAA DIII World Series in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Pearce served as an assistant baseball coach at LaGrange High School in the spring of 2023 working with the infielders and all hitters. LaGrange High School had a 31-10 record in 2023 finishing as the runners up in the 4A GHSA state championship.
Prior to attending LaGrange College, Pearce worked with the Greater Naples Little League team in Naples, Florida volunteering over 500 hours with the youth baseball teams. He also was a coach at the Mike Martin Baseball Camps in Tallahassee, Florida from May-July of 2018.
Pearce earned his bachelor's in sports management from LaGrange College in 2020 and his master of arts in teaching from LaGrange in 2021.
Last updated 6/25
