Chuck Smith (football coach)
Overview
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
coach, specifically an assistant coach of linebackers for the University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
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Smith is one of the most accomplished coaches in the recent history of Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
high school
High school
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football. He was named the Kentucky Coach of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations
National Federation of State High School Associations
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in 2003, four times by the Louisville Courier-Journal (1999, 2000, 2001, and 2004), and by the Associated Press
Associated Press
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in 1999.
Smith was an all-state linebacker at Jeffersontown High School
Jeffersontown High School
Jeffersontown High School is a public high school in the Jefferson County public schools district in Kentucky....
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