Wheeler Baseball

   Mark Collins - Head Coach

Coach Collins is in his seventh season as head baseball coach for Wheeler High School.  He has led the Wildcats to the state playoffs in his first three seasons.  He is a graduate of Morristown West High School in Morristown, Tennessee, where he played baseball for Hall of Fame Coach Brumley Greene. Coach Collins played one year at Walters State Community College and finished his career playing at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia where he was a career .320 hitter and voted team captain his senior year. After college, Coach Collins worked for the Atlanta Police Department where he received the Blue Star Medal (injured in the line of duty) from Mayor Bill Campbell and two commendations for drug enforcement from Garfield Hammonds, head of the DEA. Coach Collins spent 14 years as head baseball coach at South Cobb High School as well as serving as head fast pitch softball coach for six years. He was named Metro Coach of the Year by the Marietta Umpires Association in 2011 and 2016 Softball Coach of the Year by the Marietta Daily Journal.  He also began serving as Wheeler’s head softball coach during the 2019-2020 school year, and assistant flag football coach during the 2022-2023 school year.

Coach Collins and his wife Janice have a son, David, who is the head coach at Pell City, Alabama, and a daughter, Becky, a medical student.

   Gary Lammie - Practice Team Coach & Assistant Varsity Coach

Gary Lammie is in his third season as coach of the junior varsity team. Born in Pennsylvania, he is a graduate of John F. Kennedy High School in Willingboro, New Jersey, where he played catcher for 3 years of varsity baseball. He also played two years of club baseball for the local community college and men's senior baseball at the over 20-30-40 levels. He has coached youth baseball for 27 years, including over ten years of managing and coaching travel baseball, and has served on the East Marietta National Little League Board of Directors for over ten years. He has been married to Patty Lammie for 22 years and has five children.

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