Stewart Bailey

Head Baseball Coach

Email: stewart.bailey@gpc.edu

After four seasons as assistant head coach, Stewart Bailey will take the reins of the Jaguars for the 2011 fall scrimmages and 2012 regular season. He succeeds Danny Blue, who retired.

Coach Bailey, a fixture in North Georgia baseball for two decades, joined the GPC staff in 2008 as chief recruiter and hitting instructor. He also served as the Jaguars’ third base coach.

In his four seasons on the staff, the Jaguars were 143-87 and won Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association regular season titles in 2009 and 2011. They won the conference tournament in 2011 and finished the season ranked No. 25 nationally.

After growing up in Alexander City, Ala., Coach Bailey moved to Conyers and played baseball for four seasons at Heritage High School for Coach Blue before graduating in 1992.

At Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga., Bailey was an all-region JUCO first baseman in 1993, hitting .405. He also played at the University of West Georgia, where he graduated with a degree in health and physical education.

Bailey began his collegiate coaching career at Truett-McConnell, serving as hitting instructor from 1997 to 2001 while also earning his master’s degree in physical education from nearby North Georgia College & State University.

At Truett-McConnell, his work as a hitting instructor gained notice when the Danes hit better than .300 as a team each season, including .383 in 2000, which ranked No. 3 in the National Junior College Athletic Association. Truett-McConnell finished 42-16 that season, ranked No. 19 nationally, and produced the leading hitter in the country, David Harwell of Conyers, who batted .496.

Bailey became a head coach for the first time at White County High School in Cleveland from 2002 to 2006, inheriting a program that had posted just nine victories in its previous four seasons. In the first four years of Coach Bailey’s tenure, White County won 42 games, including a 14-10-1 season in 2005, and greatly improved its facilities.

Under Coach Bailey’s supervision, White County added a press box, an equipment room and a two-story concession stand. The school also installed a sprinkler system and sodded the field, added lights and built a $300,000 indoor hitting facility.

Bailey was head coach at Chestatee High School in Gainesville in the 2007 season before becoming Coach Blue’s assistant head coach.

Robert Morgan

Assistant Baseball Coach

Email: robert2morgan@yahoo.com

Robert Morgan joins the GPC staff for 2012 after three seasons as an assistant at Georgia Southwestern State University, an NCAA Division 2 school in Americus. He will work with the Jaguars’ hitters and defense as well as coordinate recruiting.

At Georgia Southwestern, he helped get the Hurricanes into the national rankings for the first time in any sport.

Morgan, who graduated from Crisp County High School in Cordele, was a star hitter at South Georgia and Valdosta State before playing professionally in the independent Frontier League.

In 2004, he batted .436 and set several school records at Valdosta State. He was an American Baseball Coaches Association Division 2 first team All-American and the Gulf South Conference East Division Player of the Year.

In 2005, he was first team all-conference even though an injury cut his senior season short. He was selected to Valdosta State’s all-time team as the shortstop.

Morgan was an assistant at Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla., before joining the staff of Georgia Southwestern. At Barry, which plays in NCAA Division 2, he earned a master’s degree in sports management.

Brett Campbell

Assistant Baseball Coach

Email: rcampbe2@gpc.edu

Former major league pitcher Brett Campbell joins the GPC staff in 2012 after one season as an assistant at Northwest Florida State College. There, his pitching staff produced the school’s first Panhandle Conference championship since 2000. The staff included two pro draftees and five players who signed with four-year colleges.

Campbell, a native of Douglasville and a graduate of Douglas County High School, was an All-America shortstop at Wallace State-Hanceville in Alabama before transferring to Kennesaw State University, where he pitched and played shortstop.

After being chosen in the 34th round of the 2004 amateur draft by the Montreal Expos, he sped through the minor leagues and appeared in four games as a reliever for the club, by then the Washington Nationals, in September 2006. He spent the 2007 season back in the minors and left the professional ranks after being selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the triple-A portion of the Rule 5 draft.

In four seasons as a reliever in the minors, Campbell was 11-16 with 46 saves and an ERA of 3.89, with 227 strikeouts in 215 1/3 innings.

Before beginning his collegiate coaching career, he spent two years as an assistant at McIntosh High School in Peachtree City under his father, Brad Campbell.

Don Adams

Athletic Training Consultant

In his sixth season with the Jaguars as athletic training consultant, Don Adams brings a wealth of experience to the program. He played baseball for the University of Georgia and football for legendary Bulldogs coach Wally Butts—and he’s stayed connected to athletics ever since.

Adams has been athletic trainer consultant and volunteer assistant coach in football, basketball, baseball and softball. He has served at The Marist School, East Atlanta, Rockdale County, Clarkston H.S., Redan H.S. and Social Circle H.S. When Georgia Perimeter College was known as DeKalb Community College, he was athletic training consultant, volunteer associate coach and recruiter.

Currently the president and founder of Advanced Heart Technologies, Inc., and owner and operator of Old South Farms Hunting Preserve, Inc., Adams enjoys the hobbies of hunting, fishing and shooting. He and his wife, Carol, have three children: Don Jr., Robin and Brad.