05/10/2026
Today hurts.
Spruce Creek lost more than a coach today - we lost a genuinely good man. Coach Smith was the kind of person who showed up for people, for players, and for the game itself. The kind of presence that made a field feel like home.
There's something fitting about this image - Adam preparing the field before others arrived. Quietly doing the work that made everything else possible. That's who he was, a servant to the game, to his team, and to the people around him.
My heart goes out to his family by blood, and his baseball family at Spruce Creek Hawks Baseball. There are dugouts, fields, and lives that are better because Adam was part of them.
And while this loss feels impossible to understand today, I'd like to believe he's simply been called to care for a bigger field now; somewhere beyond the fences, where the lights never go out and the game never ends.
Rest easy, Coach. You'll be deeply missed, but never forgotten.