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Vance Smith on being named Pace head coach: ‘It’s pretty surreal’
As a first grader, Vance Smith was the water boy for the Pace Patriot football team. At that time, his dad, Kent, was an assistant under then head coach Mickey Lindsey.
Smith grew up in the program. He was a ball boy in middle school and played football for the Patriots when he got to high school.
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