Coach Smith is one of our high school Bible teachers, and he currently teaches junior and senior Bible. He is the coach of the girls’ basketball and boys’ baseball team, while also managing the athletic aids. He has been at WCS for 4 years, and while he has been here he has also taught P.E. and weightlifting.
During high school, his coach was a big inspiration to him. “I had a coach in high school who gave me the idea that I could probably play college baseball one day if I worked hard and did what I was supposed to do, so I wanted to be that for someone else. My hope is that students can achieve anything.”
Coach Smith is an alum of Wayne Christian. He attended here from kindergarten through 12th grade, graduating in 2006. He said the reason he decided to come back to Wayne Christian was, “The Lord moved me to Burlington for about seven and a half years and then moved me back here to become a Bible teacher and basketball coach.”
Coach Smith wanted to become a coach because he loves students and working with teenagers. He stated, “Being able to stand in the gap of where they are currently and where they want to be is a huge inspiration for me.”
Coach Smith’s favorite sports to coach are basketball and baseball, but basketball is his favorite. “I love basketball, preferably ladies basketball.” When Coach Smith was in high school, he played both. “I wasn’t very good at basketball. That was one of the reasons I started coaching basketball, to challenge and learn the game and become better at it, but I was a huge baseball guy.”
Coach Smith’s advice to high school athletes is this: “Everything that you do represents your heart, so if you have a play you messed up on or a pitch that was bad whatever the case may be, my response to that is it reflects what in your heart. So my advice to them would be ‘How do I respond to when failure happens, because failure is inevitable. How do I respond when things don’t go my way?’”
Thank you Coach Smith for your time!