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March 9, 2021
Even though he is one of the youngest people to be named the head coach of a college sports team, Marcus Smith is taking it in stride. (Photo courtesy Raymond Suarez)
TUCSON – At 21, Marcus Smith is already in unique company.
When he was named head men’s and women’s golf coach at Pima Community College as a 20-year-old, Smith joined an elite group to be named a head coach just out of their teens. Dennis Mahan Michie is believed to be the first, when he led the U.S. Military Academy football program in 1890, also at 20.
Smith doesn’t consider it anything special, and that’s when he considers it at all.
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