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Assistant Coach Luke Ethington Receives Leadership Award from MHSFCA

ALMA, Mich. – Alma College assistant men’s basketball coach Luke Ethington, a physical education teacher at Breckenridge High School and the Breckenridge varsity football coach, has received the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association’s Steve Spicer Leadership Award.

His Breckenridge High School football players took part in 12 different community service projects including community clean-up, snow removal, elderly home visits, soup kitchen work and volunteering at the hospital.

Ethington graduated from Lansing Eastern High School in 1989 and went on to play college football at Northwood Institute prior to joining the Marine Corps (infantry), serving from 1992-96. At the age of 26, he returned to Michigan where he walked on to the Central Michigan football team in the spring of 1997 at fullback, earning a scholarship after that season.

In 2002 he completed his bachelor's degree at CMU and earned his teaching certificate from Ferris State in 2003.

Ethington and his wife Toni - a kindergarten teacher and head volleyball coach at Breckenridge - reside in Breckenridge wtih sons Lucas Jr., Cameron, Bohde and Dawson.

Posted: Mon, March 20th, 2006 at 10:14AM

 

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Terry Smith

Terry Smith

Smith graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Physical Education in 1984. After graduating, Smith got his start in coaching when he was the boy’s basketball coach at Fulton High School while working as a teacher at Ithaca High School. From there he moved to Cedar Springs High School were he coached and taught and won his first district championship in 1987.

The following year, Coach Smith got his first taste of coaching in the college ranks when he was an assistant men’s basketball coach at Ferris State University and was part of the team that won a GLIAC Championship and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA DII Tournament.

After a year at FSU, Coach Smith left for Lake Superior State University where he served for three years as an assistant coach before being promoted to the head coach position in 1991. In five years time, Coach Smith had turned around the LSSU program. In 1996 his team won the first League Championship for LSSU since joining the GLIAC in 1978. During this time, Coach Smith also earned his M.A. in Physical Education from Central Michigan University.

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