GREENSBORO, N.C. – App State Baseball head coach Kermit Smith has been named a recipient of the American Baseball Coaches Association's Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.
The honor is presented to individuals who embody the association's Code of Ethics. The ABCA believes that the highest calling of a baseball coach is to teach life's lessons and model the character traits of honesty, integrity, respect and personal responsibility.
"Kermit Smith epitomizes what a leader of young people should look like," App State Director of Athletics Doug Gillin said.