Peter Quinn has been a college basketball coach for the past thirteen years. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Pfeiffer University with a degree in Liberal Studies.
Quinn started his career as an assistant coach at Long Island University-Southampton College. There, he was the sole assistant for five seasons before being named head coach in June of 2003. Unfortunately, after two seasons, he was forced to leave his position due to Long Island University’s decision to shut down the undergraduate program at Southampton College.
During his seven year tenure at Southampton College his teams led the nation in steals once and won the ECAC Championship for the first time in the program’s history.
Following his departure from Southampton, Quinn was named an assistant coach at Pfeiffer University. For two years he was called on to be the "defensive coordinator". His first season, the Falcons led the nation (Division II) in forced turnovers (27.5 per game) and steals (13.1 per game). And the following season they led the conference in the same two categories. He was also responsible for recruiting, individual workouts, film breakdown/editing and video exchange. Along with those duties, he was responsible for red-shirt practices, as well as maintaining and updating the men's basketball web page.
Quinn also provided his services to baseball (sports information), men's and women's soccer (home event management), men's and women's cross country (road management), women's volleyball (home and road event management), softball (sports information and road management) and men’s lacrosse (home event management).
Following his departure from Pfeiffer, Quinn spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Belmont Abbey College. During his two years at Belmont Abbey, Quinn was a member of a coaching staff which helped revive a struggling Crusaders’ program. The program won 36 games in two years and defeated the defending Division II national champions.
Quinn returned to Pfeiffer for the 2009-2010 season. That team once again led the conference in steals and forced turnovers, finished with 17 wins, and led the country in scoring. He also mentored another Division II All-American, Chris Woods.
In the 2010-2011 season, Quinn followed his mentor, Dave Davis, to Newberry College in South Carolina after he resigned from his position in May 2010.
