Smart to be Arkansas baseball's next volunteer assistant

Taylor Smart played at Tennessee during the 2013 and 2014 seasons.FAYETTEVILLE — Dave Van Horn has found his next volunteer assistant coach.

Taylor Smart, who served as a graduate assistant at Arizona last season, will join Arkansas’ staff in mid-August, Van Horn said. Smart is currently an assistant coach for the Santa Barbara Foresters in the California Collegiate League.

Van Horn said there was a lot of interest in the open volunteer assistant position following Craig Parry’s departure. Parry accepted a job as hitting coach at Abilene Christian earlier this month.

“Taylor is a young, and up and coming guy and (joining Arkansas) wasn’t a major obstacle for him,” Van Horn said. “He wanted to…