MOULTRIE — Colquitt County’s Greg Tillery has been named the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association’s Region 1-7A Athletic Director of the Year for  2017-2018.

Selected by the other ADs in the region, he is now a finalist for the GACA Class 7A Athletic Director of the Year for Georgia and a finalist for the all-classification Athletic Director of the Year.

Tillery also is an assistant principal at Colquitt County High School and is the Region 1-7A representative to the Georgia High School Association.

A former Colquitt County High football and baseball player, Tillery was the middle school athletic director before taking over from Kevin Giddens, who retired as AD on Feb. 1, 2016.

After graduating from Colquitt County High School, he went to Georgia Southwestern, where he was a catcher for the Hurricanes baseball team.

He worked in the private sector for several years before deciding to become a teacher and coach in his hometown.

Tillery coached football for 14 years, including six working with the varsity Packers defensive tackles before resigning following the 2013 season.

He also coached baseball for a number of years, serving as the head junior varsity and ninth-grade head coach, and was the varsity wrestling coach.

There were five years when he coached football, wrestling and baseball back-to-back-to back.

Tillery oversees a program that includes cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, football, softball, volleyball, basketball, diving, riflery, swimming, wrestling, baseball, golf, gymnastics, soccer, tennis and track programs.

He is also helping oversee the moving of the Colquitt County football program’s facilities from the field house behind the old high school into a new addition to the current high school buillding.

By the end of January, the transition from the old field house to the new high school should be complete and nearly all school sports programs will have their homes on campus.

Among the facilities that the Tillery, as athletic director, oversees is the versatile gymnasium at the high school, the new indoor multi- purpose facility currently under construction, Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium and the baseball, softball, soccer, cross country, tennis and track facilities at Packer Park on the high school campus.