Andy MacDonald is an assistant coach with the Scots for the 2008-09 season after being a volunteer coach last year. He graduated from Lake Superior State in 2006 with a degree in political science and was a student assistant and coach for the University from 2000-2003. In the summers, MacDonald has worked numerous youth basketball camps throughout the state of Michigan. He is also a member of BCAM.
Assistant Coach Andy MacDonald
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Coach Profile
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.