Leonard Smoot

Leonard Smoot Jr (born c. 1961 in Flint, Michigan) is a former Marine and head golf coach for the Miles College Golden Bears.

Smoot was the oldest child of Leonard and Mildred Smoot, who had moved to Michigan from Sumter County, Alabama and he frequently visited relatives in Collegeville along with his younger sister, Shelia.

He played baseball and sang R&B before he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, where he spent 24 years. While stationed in Okinawa, Japan he formed a singing group called "B4" (Brothers Forever) and began playing golf, eventually earning a spot on the Corps' team.

Smoot retired from the military with the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 3 in January 2005. He completed a business management degree at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. He was hired as Miles College's first golf coach in April 2013. His team won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship in 2016, and was the runner up three other times. He was named SIAC coach of the year four times. In 2021 Miles' golf team won the PGA WORKS Division II Collegiate Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

References

• Crenshaw, Solomon Jr (June 24, 2021) "Leonard Smoot Coaches Miles College to National Golf Title." The Birmingham Times