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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Mrryce Smith was approved as the new Aliquippa High School head boy’s basketball coach on Wednesday by the Aliquippa school board. The Aliquippa school board voted at a meeting on June 11th, 2025 to not renew the contract of the previous Aliquippa head boy’s basketball coach, Nick Lackovich. Smith was also one of the assistant boy’s basketball coaches to serve with Lackovich for Aliquippa High School. For the past 25 years, Smith has been an assistant coach that has coached in that position across a wide array of Aliquippa teams. Smith is presently a sixth grade teacher at Aliquippa School District and he graduated from Aliquippa High School in 1992, teaching within the Aliquippa School District for twenty-nine years.