Five years after graduating from Charles Henderson, the former Trojan baseball standout has been hired to take over the CHHS baseball program.
He replaces John Gluschik, who guided the Trojans this season before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the season. Smartt will also be a physical education teacher at the high school.
“I am pleased I am getting the opportunity and the chance to come back to my alma mater to coach here,” Smartt said in a Dothan Eagle interview Friday. “I know how this high school is inside and out.”
It will be the first coaching job of any kind for the 24-year-old Smartt, who played in the Independent Baseball League’s Canadian American Association last season after a standout career at Troy University.