2001

Photo by Travis Mitchell New East Central Community College Men's Basketball Coach Billy Smith had a busy first week on the Decatur campus. Smiths achieve coaching dreams

Susan Fox-Smith - was chosen to be the new girls coach at NCHS. ..I am just real excited," Fox-Smith .aid. "I didn't know if I would ever get a chance. ..1 enjoyed us working together (she was her husband's assistant at NCHS}, but I always want– ed to be a head coach, and now 1 have a chance," she said. "Us being husband and wife, you just didn't ever know if you would get a chance."

Smith said he was ready to make the move to the next level and was not concerned at all ab6ut moving from being a high school girls coach to a junior college men's coach. "Basketball is basketball," he said. "I feel lik.e we are going into a good situation and I'm excit– ed about it." But the 40-year-old veteran coach admitted his See SMITHS, page 12A

By AUSTIN BISHOP Sports Editor Within a matter of days. two dreams came true for the basketball-coaching Smith family. Last Tuesday, longtime Ncshoba Central High School girls coach Billy Smith wa<; named the head men's ba'lketball coach at EaMCentral Com– munity College and at the same time his wife -

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