Steve Peed joined the staff at Maine Maritime in August of 2011, bringing a decade of experience in athletic communications and administration to Castine. Since his arrival, he drafted the institution's first compliance manual and rewrote the student-athlete handbook setting the cornerstone for the institution's complaince system. He has also gone to work on overhauling the college's record books to be more inclusive.

As the Associate Director of Athletics at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., Peed was responsible for all aspects of athletic communications for the Diplomats’ 28 intercollegiate athletic teams. He was also charged with compliance for the department, which includes an NCAA Division I wrestling program. Peed coordinated the NCAA championship bids and athletics Hall of Fame at F&M as well.

At F&M, Peed had the opportunity to publicize two NCAA Division III National Championship teams. He oversaw the reconstruction of the department’s athletics record books, moving them into a digital format. His focus on technology and web services put F&M on the cutting edge in the world of sports information.

In the summer of 2010, Peed co-led the focus group that developed the new Diplomats identity. He also led the team that relaunched GoDiplomats.com on the PrestoSports Network and partnered with Stretch Internet to provide video and live stats. It was the college's second partnership in streaming 20 of the department's 28 sports.

Peed spent five years (2001-2006) as the Director of Sports Information at McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College). He assumed the post in August following his graduation from the school. He had served one year as a student-worker prior to being hired. In his time in Westminster, he established a complete electronic database of athletic records and shepherded in the era of Internet broadcasting, taking WTTR AM 1470’s radio feed to the web.

As a student-athlete at Western Maryland, Peed studied Political Science and Communications and was a member of four Centennial Conference Championship teams (three in football, one in wrestling). As a junior, he interned in the Maryland General Assembly and was hired for each of the next two legislative sessions by the Washington County Delegation Chairman.

Peed earned a Master of Science in Sport Management at Drexel University in 2010. His thesis proved a positive statistical correlation between athletic expenditure and athletic success in NCAA Division III and was presented at the 2011 College Sports Reasearch Institute (CSRI) convention at the University of North Carolina. It was one of four of his entries presented at the conference.

He is a die-hard Eagles, Phillies and Flyers fan. Peed and his wife Courtney, will settle in the Castine area.