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A former athlete at Myers Park High School who later returned as a coach on the staff, Zailan Peeler, has passed away.
Peeler’s death was announced by former coach Nick Jones who remembered his former athlete/colleague in a touching tribute. No cause of death has been officially listed but reports indicate Peeler passed in an accident.
Zailan Peeler graduated Myers Park High School in Charlotte NC in 2017 after starring for three years on the varsity basketball team.
He proceeded to Tusculum and later Carson Newman University in Jefferson City TN, starring for both the Tusculum Pioneers and later the Carson Newman Eagles.
Following his college career, Peeler went back to Myers Park where he worked on the coaching staff.
Coach Nick Jones, who coached Peeler from his junior year at MP in 2015, expressed shock at the news of Jones’ passing and praised him for being a dedicated and determined athlete who later turned into a valued member of his coaching staff.
“In 2015 when i started at MP you were a Junior….Graduated in 2017….left for Tusculum/Carson Newman…came home every break to workout….came home for good in 2020 and coached with us the last 2 years,” Jones wrote in a post on X remembering Peeler. “In that 9 year span you touched the lives of many, celebrated the highest of highs,”
