Title: Defensive Line Coach / Special Projects
Email: smithaz@brevard.edu
Phone: (803) 309-7695
Playing and Professional Career:
2023-2024: Wheeler High School, Marietta, GA – Defensive Line Coach
- Assisted head football coach with training and coaching defensive line
- Coached three transitional players to defensive linemen who made All-Region team
- Taught Entrepreneurship, managed classroom and provided instruction to students
2022: Stetson University, Deland, FL - Defensive Quality Control Analyst
- Performed practice preparation, scouting, assisted with football operations, and gameday box chart of defense and special teams
2020-2022: Professional Football Player - Defensive Tackle
- Played for the Green Bay Blizzard of the Indoor Football League (2020 & 2021)
- Played for the Alphas in The Spring League in Indianapolis (2021)
- Played for the Saltillo Dinos in the Liga de Fútbol Americano Professional, a spring league in Mexico (2022)
2015-2019: Stetson University, Deland, FL – Defensive Tackle
- Saw action in 41 games throughout four-year college career
- Played in both the FCS Bowl (team captain) and the Spiral Tropical Bowl
- Invited to NFL tryout camp in Daytona
- Received an Emerging Leader Award from Stetson University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (Spring 2016, 2017, 2018)
- Selected President and Charter Member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., Stetson University Chapter (May 2019)
2011-2015: Ridge View High School, Columbia, SC - Defensive End and Defensive Tackle
- Became four-year letterman with the football team
- Competed in the shot put and discus on the track team and played lacrosse
- Member of the National Honor Society and the National Beta Club
- Received the Morehouse College Emerging Man of Scholarship certificate
2019: Stetson University, Deland, FL – Bachelor’s in Business Administration
- Major in Finance and a Minor in Sales
- Roland George Investments Program portfolio management team member
Zane Smith enters his second season on staff with BC football in 2026, serving as the Defensive Line Coach and Special Projects Coordinator.
Zane A. Smith was born on March 29, 1997, in Columbia, SC ... He has traveled throughout the United States and Mexico ... He married his college sweetheart, Amber Hunter-Henley on July 27, 2024, a former Stetson University and six-season Atlanta Falcons cheerleader and captain who now serves as the Head Cheerleading Coach at Brevard CollegeThe couple resides in the Atlanta area.
