Peach Belt Conference ground in Alabama. In 2012-13, the Peach Belt expanded to 14 members, the most the league has ever had, with the addition of Young Harris College. On January 8, 2013, the University System of Georgia finalized the mergers of two conference members into new institutions. Augusta State was merged into Georgia Regents University, which was renamed in 2015 as Augusta University, and NGCSU was merged into the University of North Georgia. In both cases, the new institutions inherited the Peach Belt memberships of the older schools. The Peach Belt was less than a year old before capturing its first of
Peach State Summer Theatre Theatre reps travelled to Jekyll Island to present three musicals during a 9-week period. By 2005, budget restraints within the state’s university system resulted in moving the program from Jekyll to Valdosta and the creation of Peach State Summer Theatre, or PSST. Peach State has maintained the repertory tradition of the Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival by presenting three musicals each summer in VSU’s Sawyer Theatre in the Fine Arts Building. Casting notices take two to three years to reach potential employees. In the summer of 2010 Peach State Summer Theatre celebrated 20 years of professional musical theatre in South