Coach Collins is in his first season as head baseball coach for Woodland High School. He is in his 23rd yr as a head coach in Cobb County. . 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 graduated from 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 15 years as head baseball coach at South Cobb High School as well as serving as head fast pitch softball coach for six years. This included a final 8 and final 16 appearance. The last 7 years were spent at Wheeler highschool where they qualified for the playoffs 4 times. 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.

Coach Collins and his wife Janice have a son, David, who is the head Strength and conditioning coach as well as Varsity pitching coach at Chelsea highschool in Alabama, and a daughter, Becky, a practicing PA in Coweta county.