VALDOSTA — Valdosta State head baseball coach Greg Guilliams announced Friday he is the new head coach at Flagler College.

“I would like to thank Valdosta State and the Valdosta Community for this opportunity to have been the head coach of the Blazers for all of these 17 years,” Guilliams said. “VSU truly is a special place and once a Blazer always a Blazer. I will cherish all of the memories and the people I have met here forever, especially the players that I have had the privilege to serve.”

Guilliams has been at the helm of the Blazers for 17 seasons where he has compiled a 501-323-1 (.608) record with two Gulf South Conference titles and seven trips to the NCAA postseason.

He is ninth all-time in the GSC in victories and second in school history in wins behind former head coach and VSU Hall of Fame member Tommy Thomas. During Guilliams’ 34-year coaching career, he has a 1,178-580-2 (.670) record across three institutions.

“Coach Gulliams’ teams had consistent success highlighted by seven NCAA tournament appearances in what is arguably the toughest baseball region in the country,” VSU Director of Athletics Herb Reinhard said. “We appreciate his work at Valdosta State and wish him the best.”

This past season, Guilliams guided the Blazers to a 28-20 record overall and narrowly missed the program’s third trip to the NCAA postseason in as many seasons. Of his seventeen seasons in Titletown, he produced winning records fifteen times. Guilliams won 43 games in both the 2009 and 2010 seasons, while winning the league title in 2010 and 2013. He finished league runner-up in 2009 and 2023.

Guilliams won his 500th game at VSU versus Montevallo on May 3, 2024, in the Gulf South Conference Tournament in Oxford, Alabama. He began his career at VSU in 2007, after sixteen seasons at Embry-Riddle and one season at Penn State-Behrend.

While at VSU, Guilliams produced 65 All-GSC honorees, four GSC Players of the Year and one GSC Freshman of the Year. He has coached 13 All-Americans at VSU and had six players drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft.

A national search for a new head coach for the Blazers will begin immediately.