The Boston Red Sox announced on Monday that they have hired Smith for a minor league team. I am extremely excited and proud to see black woman making moves in industries and fields we have yet to get to. Please do not get it confused. She knows her stuff and has the background in the game that led her to receive this position.
Smith is currently the assistant coach and hitting coordinator at Carroll University in Wisconsin. She previously served as an athletics compliance assistant at Case Western Reserve University. Smith also interned previously with the Texas Rangers and worked as a baseball operations trainee with the Cincinnati Reds, according to her LinkedIn profile. She earned a J.D. in sports law at Case Western Reserve, where she also received a master’s in business administration.
“The opportunity is amazing,” Smith said in an interview on MLB Network’s Hot Stove program on Monday. “I’m still wrapping my head around it. I probably won’t really have it sink in until I’m actually there.”
“I think it’s a great opportunity also to kind of inspire other women who are interested in this game. This is not really something I thought about it when I was younger. I kind of fell into it being an athlete. So I’m excited to get that chance to show what I can do.”
We are looking forward to the impact Smith will make on the game.
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