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Leonard Smoot, Miles College Head Golf Coach Named SIAC 2019 Coach of the Year (4878 hits)


Courtesy of African American Golfer's Digest
BY AAGD STAFF

May 2, 2019

Congratulations to Miles College Head Golf Coach, Leonard Smoot on being named SIAC 2019 Coach of the Year. The announcement was made on April 14, 2019 by SIAC Men’s Golf All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

In 2013, for the first time in school history, Miles College began offering golf as a sponsored sport and the Golden Bears began its inaugural season during the 2013-2014 school year. Coach Smoot had initiated the establishment of the program.

“This new golf team is a great opportunity for Miles College to show yet another component of the culture, class and civility that we instill in our students,” says President George T. French at the time. “It is a testament of the standard of excellence that we expect from our students academically and holistically.”

At that time Coach Smoot was a 24-year retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) with over 20 years of competitive golf experience. Smoot was also well-versed in competitive golf and had achieved several top-10 finishes in tournaments throughout Southeast Asia and Europe, including wins at the Wago Championship (Okinawa, Japan), as well as the Staff & Officer Championship (Awase, Japan). For Coach Smoot, the collegiate terrain became his new battlefield where his strong military background, leadership abilities and coaching skills would be put to the test.

The native of Flint, Michigan attended Flint Beecher High School and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Huntingdon College. Since then Smoot has achieved a strong history of excellence in golf. In 2002, he became just the third African American to make the United States’ Marines Golf Team. He has also served as a mentor/coach for the Professional Women’s Golf Association since 2008, while also previously serving in various roles for many regional golf tournaments, including the South Region Minority Supplier Development Council Golf Classic (SRMSDC), the Museum of Urban Art Golf Tournament, the Stillman College Scholarship Golf Tournament, and Alabama Leadership Foundation Golf Classic.

The first Head Golf Coach of Miles College has a passion for his profession and continues to provide golf instruction to all levels of golfers while helping them grow through a positive mental attitude. Smoot has been the only coach in the Miles College golf program’s six-year history, and in the metro Birmingham community. He has won one SIAC championship and finished second three times while also winning the last three SIAC Coach of the Year awards. In December 2018 Coach Smoot was selected to serve on the PGA Minority Collegiate Championship Advisory Council, a 15-member board, which will oversee the 33rd PGA Minority Collegiate Championship and PGA Works Career Expo taking place May 9-12, 2019 at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

ABOUT MILES COLLEGE
Miles College was founded in 1898, is a premier liberal arts institution located in metropolitan Birmingham within the corporate limits of the City of Fairfield. The noble founders of the institution saw educated leadership as the paramount need in the black community. As a senior, private, liberal arts Historically Black College with roots in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the institution motivates and prepares students, through committed faculty, to seek knowledge that leads to intellectual and civic empowerment.


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Posted By: Reginald Culpepper
Thursday, May 2nd 2019 at 6:16PM
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