MEN’S BASKETBALL: Fort Smith hires Lamar assistant Bailey as head coach
Published 1:57 pm Saturday, June 30, 2018
Arkansas-Fort Smith has hired former Lamar men’s basketball assistant Justin Bailey as its head coach.
Bailey is a Fort Smith native who played at UAFS and is a former men’s basketball assistant coach and head cross country coach there.
“I’m very excited about getting this opportunity,” Bailey said in a UAFS news release. “UAFS is home for me, and if you cut me, I bleed Lions blue. It means so much to be able to come back and coach the Lions. This community and university [are] so supportive of this program.”
UAFS went 24-6 and shared the Heartland Conference championship at 12-4 under Josh Newman, who resigned to become UT Permian Basin’s head coach. The school formerly known as Westark Junior College has played in Division II for nine years.
About I.C. Murrell
I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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