New Glenbrook Head Coach Reagan Smith has been guiding his team through summer workouts for about four weeks now. He said things have gone smoothly so far.
“It’s just a really good fit,” he said late last week. “The kids are very coachable. They’re used to winning. They’re learning my way of working out. And it just seems to be going really positively.”
Smith was officially named head coach on May 11. The Apaches started summer workouts on June 1.
This is Smith’s first head coaching job after a highly successful career as an assistant with stints at North Caddo, Parkway, Logansport, Evangel Christian and West Monroe.
He spent the last four seasons helping North Caddo enjoy unprecedented success.
“I felt like I needed a new challenge,” he said. “When I stepped back and analyzed what all had occurred in my career I felt like I needed to try it. I needed to kind of expand on what I had already done. And I didn’t know what that would look like. So far I feel really good about it.”
Glenbrook hasn’t played 7-on-7 games against outside competition. But the Apaches have competed against each other.
“We probably won’t participate in any tournaments,” Smith said. “But we have done a little bit with each other and it has been really positive. It’s good or better than I expected.”
Besides regular workouts, weight training has been at the forefront.
A former offensive line coach, weight training is something that’s especially important to Smith, who is an expert in the area.
“That’s my thing,” he said. “I’m a big weight room guy. But not in a traditional sense. I try to track like what is the latest and greatest in basically strength technology. And so we try to implement things that give us an edge in that respect.”