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team, but was unsuccessful ■ in that quest and accepted an assistant coaching position ; Instead. The team fared poorly, with a 2 and 14 finish for the year, but Mr. Smythe’s • enthusiasm and dedication ‘proved a winner, and led to his appointment as AD.
This year’s softball result was vastly different—a State - Championship for those Lady Panthers—but Athletic ; Director and softball coach -Smythe knows that that ; championship will be but one - banner in a gymnasium flutI tering with the successes of • the next decade.
That win was the result • of incredible talent coached 'superbly and, though more than just a success, it repre; sents only the beginning for RCHS athletic dominance—if the Smythe approach proves to be as effective as it appears J it might.
Mr. Smythe brought a system ... a philosophy ... a way of living, perhaps, to the i high school and its students, athletes, and athletic teams. •; Some is borrowed from the • twenty-five years he spend in . the Marine Corps, some he ‘ probably picked up elsewhere . on the way, but in total hjs %, approach—illustrated by the phraseology that garnishes «the Department’s walls—is i an accurate representation of
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