Pete Meyer

Now in his third year (2010-11) as Director of Athletics at Florida Southern College, Pete Meyer saw Moccasin teams enjoy considerable success in 2009-10. The men's golf team captured its 12th NCAA national title and the school's 27th, while the women's golf team finished third.  Swimmer Jeb Halfacre won the 200-yard backstroke at the NCAA championship, giving FSC its first individual national champion in swimming.  NCAA postseason bids went to women's soccer, golf and tennis and men's cross country, basketball, golf, tennis and baseball.  Both swimming teams and the women's cross country team had individual NCAA qualifiers.  FSC won SSC titles in men's cross country (13th straight), men's basketball and men's golf.

All of that success combined to give the Moccasins a 23rd-place finish in the 2009-10 Learfield Sports/NACDA Cup standings and their ninth top 25 finish in the program's history.

In Meyer's first year as AD (2008-09), Moccasin teams produced three SSC championships (men's cross country, men's basketball, softball) and a fifth-place national finish in women's golf.   Eleven FSC teams went to NCAA postseason competition.

Named to the AD position Feb. 21, 2008, he officially assumed his duties July 1, 2008, when Lois Webb retired. Since 1972, he is just the fourth person to occupy the position of athletics director at Florida Southern - following Hal Smeltzly (1972-2000), Mike Roberts (2000-01) and Webb (2001-08).  Meyer was the Moccasins' head baseball coach from 2002 through 2008.

In the fall of 2008, Meyer was given the additional title of Dean of Wellness, as the operation of the Hollis Wellness Center  as well as the the water ski program and campus intramurals also fall under his direction.

Meyer, who has been at Florida Southern since 1998, had served as assistant athletics director for Webb since February of 2006, in addition to maintaining his baseball coaching duties. In his position as assistant athletics director, he was responsible for acquiring major gifts for the athletic department that included funding and equipment for the athletics weight room and upgrading the baseball and men's basketball locker rooms. He coordinated all of the athletic department's fundraising efforts, coordinated athletic facilities and served as game administrator for various home events. He also served as Florida Southern's representative on the Sunshine State Conference Marketing Committee.

As baseball coach, Meyer spent six full seasons as head coach, keeping the Moccasin program among the elite in NCAA Division II. In 2005, he guided the Moccasins to their ninth NCAA Division II national title with a 51-11 record and was the American Baseball Coaches Association Division II Coach-of-the-Year. In addition to his national coaching honors from the ABCA, Meyer also was South Region, Sunshine State Conference and Florida Diamond Club (scouting organization) Coach-of-the-Year.

His head coaching record at Florida Southern was 257-111-1, while his overall record as a head coach was 296-141-1. Thirty-four Moccasin baseball players were drafted or signed professional contracts during Meyer's tenure at FSC.

Before officially assuming the reigns of head coach, Meyer had served for over three years as Florida Southern's top assistant coach under Chuck Anderson. He also was the program's recruiting coordinator.

Prior to joining the FSC coaching staff, Meyer spent five seasons at Valdosta State, working under the legendary head coach, Tommy Thomas. Before his stint at Valdosta State, Meyer was head baseball coach at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, where he coordinated the start of the school's Division III baseball program in 1991. He served as a graduate assistant at Valdosta State from 1988-90, while earning his M. Ed. in physical education.

A four-year baseball letterman at the College of Wooster in Ohio, Meyer graduated in 1987 with a B.A. in speech communication.

Meyer is married to the former Julie Newnum. The couple has three children, 22-year old Ross and 20-year old Mitchell, both of whom are enrolled at FSC, and 19-year old Megan, who attends Trinity University in Texas.