Leon Smith

Leon Smith may refer to:

See also

Leon E. Smith

Leon E. Smith Jr. (born 30 May 1937) is a member of the Idaho House of Representatives. He has served in this position since 1998. Prior to this he was mayor of Twin Falls and a prosecutor for Twin Falls County, Idaho. He has a bachelor's degree from Kansas State University and a law degree from Washburn University.

He and his wife Jan are the parents of three children.

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Leon Smith (tennis)

Leon Smith (born 1976, Glasgow) is a British tennis coach. Smith has been captain of the Great Britain Davis Cup team since 2010, and captained Great Britain to win the 2015 Davis Cup.

Career

Smith played national-level junior tennis but did not become a professional player. He began coaching professionally at club level aged 18. He has focused on elite players since 1998, and became national performance officer for Tennis Scotland that year. Two years later he helped set up a tennis academy at the Next Generation club in Edinburgh. He rejoined Tennis Scotland as LTA academy coach, and became national training coach for Scotland in 2004.

Smith has coached several Scottish junior players, most notably Andy Murray. Smith worked with Murray from age 11 to 15, during which time Murray won the Junior Orange Bowl under-12 title and five ITF Futures events. Smith and Murray remained friends, and Smith assisted Murray at the French Open in 2006 during a period when Murray had no full-time coach.

Leon Smith (basketball)

Leon Smith (born November 2, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the NBA, the CBA, the USBL and the IBL, and abroad in Puerto Rico and Argentina.

Smith was raised in a foster home, called Lydia Children's Home, as a ward of the state of Illinois due to neglect from his parents when he was five years old.

Smith was selected out of Chicago's Martin Luther King High School by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round (29th overall) of the 1999 NBA Draft and was immediately traded to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for the draft rights to Gordan Giriček and a second-round pick in the 2000 NBA Draft. However, in subsequent months he suffered numerous psychological concerns, and was released in February 2000 without ever playing a game for the Mavericks. A month previous, Smith was released from a psychiatric ward to where he was committed for several weeks, after an incident in which he threw a rock through a car window and swallowed approximately 250 aspirin tablets and would tell police officers, "I am an Indian fighting Columbus".