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A ZEBRA — Pete Smith, No. 12 in the photo, is shown playing basketball for the Rochester High School Zebras in 1979. Photo provided by Pete Smith.
Former resident to be state basketball By LEAH SANDER Staff Writer
STATE CHAMPION COACH — Pete Smith is shown coaching for Guerin Catholic High School. Photo provided by Pete Smith.
PETE SMITH DAY— Former Rochester resident Pete Smith, right, won two Class 3A state championships as boys’ basketball coach for Guerin Catholic High School in Noblesville. He is being inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Wednesday, March 20. Rochester Mayor Trent Odell, shown with Smith, has therefore declared March 20 “Pete Smith Day.” Photo provided by Pete Smith.
Pete Smith said “it’s truly humbling” to be inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. The two-time, Class 3A state championship boys’ basketball coach noted there are “a lot of great coaches” who haven’t been inducted into the hall of fame. Smith, formerly of Rochester, will be inducted Wednesday, March 20, along with 16 others, with a reception at the Hall of Fame in New Castle and a banquet in Indianapolis. Rochester Mayor Trent Odell has therefore decided to declare March 20 “Pete Smith Day.” “It’s very, very cool and humbling,” added Smith of the local honor. He said the person and coach he became was “formed by my 18 years in Rochester.” A 1979 Rochester High School graduate, Smith played basketball and tennis and competed in track and field. As a junior, Smith was on the Rochester Zebras’ 1978 sectional championship basketball team, playing next on the Zebras’ 1979 Northern Lakes’ Conference championship team. While on the team, he earned the Zebras’ Most Valuable Defensive Player and the Don Smiley Memorial Sportsmanship honor. Smith also won a NLC tennis doubles title in 1977 with class-
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mate Tom Weaver. Smith said he spent much time taking his “bike from our house on the south side of Lake Manitou, to the city park to play hours and hours of basketball against the older guys who were basketball players.” He practiced with Arik Lee, Dave McCarter, David Hiatt, Greg Carr and Mark Wisely. “Both Arik and I had half-court basketball courts at our house, and we’d take turns going to each other’s court,” said Smith. After graduation, he headed to then Bethel College to play basketball and tennis, majoring in business education and administration and minoring in economics and physical education. “I was so lucky that my mother was an accountant, and then I had Mrs. (Joan) Hungerford as accounting teacher and Coach (Phil) McCarter as a general business teacher,” said Smith. “They helped fuel my interest in teaching business after college, although I thought I would follow in my mom’s footsteps the first two years of college and become an accountant.” “But my college basketball coach, Homer Drew, explained that to be a head high school basketball coach someday, you had to be a teacher back then,” added Smith. “So my junior year in college, I switched my major to concentrate on education as my degree.” As a college senior, he served as assistant basketball coach at John Adams High School, South Bend, also coaching track and field Continued on page 2
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