{"id":19671,"date":"2013-03-08T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=19671"},"modified":"2013-03-08T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:15:25","slug":"east-lee-county-hs-names-new-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/east-lee-county-hs-names-new-head-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lee County HS <br>Names New Head Football Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/groundbreaking-today-of-elchs-leadership-academy-challenge-complex\/elchs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6858\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6858\" title=\"ELCHS\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ELCHS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>After completing the interview process, involving both in-state and out-of-state candidates, East Lee County High is proud to announce that internal candidate, David Smith, has been selected as the school\u2019s next Head Varsity Football Coach.\u00a0 Coach Smith will be replacing Coach Scott Jones, who announced his resignation following his team\u2019s first-ever District Championship this past season.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Coach Smith has served as the team\u2019s Defensive Coordinator since arriving to East Lee County High School in August 2009 to teach Driver\u2019s Education.\u00a0 Prior to East Lee County High School, Coach Smith taught and coached at Cypress Lake High School for 23 years.\u00a0 Coach Smith is excited about the opportunity to step into his first role as Head Coach and to continue to build on the young school\u2019s success. In his time at East Lee, he has built positive relationships with the athletes and parents, and shares a mutual level of respect with his players.\u00a0 Coach Smith upholds high expectations for the East Lee football program and is committed to seeing the program continue to develop and flourish.\u00a0 He aspires to take his team to a state series championship and send several of his players onto college with athletic scholarships. \u00a0\u201cWe are on the right track and we need to continue on this path,\u201d commented Coach Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After completing the interview process, involving both in-state and out-of-state candidates, East Lee County High is proud to announce that internal candidate, David Smith, has been selected as the school\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}