You would be hard-pressed to find someone prouder to be a Conway Wampus Cat than Kenny Smith. He was a member of the program's first state championship team in 1964 inder Rex Lovell, later an assistant under Buzz Bolding, and became the school's all-time winningest coach while at the helm from 1991-2008.
Smith lost his father during his sophomore year in high school and it was his coaches who took the roles of being mentors and father figures to him. Other than a couple of other coaching stops, he has spent the entirety of his life in Conway and played offensive line at Central Arkansas during his college career.
In his time leading Conway, Smith won 129 games, six conference titles, and led the Wampus Cats to a state finals appearance in 1993 - the program's last berth in the championship game to date. He is a member of the school's Hall of Fame.
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