Illinois College Athletics

Considered one of the finest basketball players in IC history. He scored more than 1,000 points in a stellar, four-year career and earned two MVP awards. He also lettered in track and at one point held the IC triple jump record. Smith’s coaching honors included being named IESA Coach of the Year in 1984 after leading the Winchester Grade School’s boys’ eighth grade basketball team to the first of two state titles. Also coach the WGS eighth grade boys’ track team to the 1989 state championship.