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
Personal: 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. The couple resides in the Atlanta area.
