Coach Maureen “Mo” Brown, long-time Pierce County athletic director, is retiring after almost 40 years of service.
Brown, a much beloved figure in Pierce County, made the announcement last week.
She has 38 years of service as a coach and has served for the past 29 years as athletic director at Pierce County Middle School.
Her resignation was accepted by the board of education at their monthly work session last Thursday morning. She will officially retire at the end of the school year.
Affectionately known as “Coach Mo,” Brown was a standout basketball and track star at Blackshear High in the late 1970s, played collegiate basketball at South Georgia College and Georgia College before moving on to a successful high school coaching career. Beginning in the 1980s, Brown served stints as head coach of girls basketball, girls softball, and girls golf at Pierce County High School, including winning two golf state championships (2000, 2005).
Brown also ushered in the advent of fast-pitch softball at PCHS before embarking on a highly successful career as a sports administrator. She has spent the latter half of her career as athletic director at Pierce County Middle School. One of the first in this area to hold that office at the middle school level, Brown has overseen a sports program at PCMS that has dominated the Southeast Georgia Middle School Athletic Conference for more than two decades.
