Geoffrey Smith, who holds the Fort Chair in Writing at SAS, joined the SAS faculty as a history teacher in 2014. In the intervening five years, he has instituted a multi-day Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration at the school, advised the school’s Debate Club and Christian Athletes’ Club, and led a Bible Study group. He coached the school’s Ethics Bowl team to back-to-back state championships in 2019 and 2020. His Winterim course, Art of Manliness: Skills Every Young Person Should Know, is a perennial favorite with students. He is also a lead house parent, assistant coach of the boys’ varsity soccer team, and leader of the ninth-grade Grade Level Program team. Smith has introduced several electives to the curriculum, including a Special Studies course that teaches students research skills and guides them through independent, cross-disciplinary research projects. Last year, he was elected by his fellow faculty members to be their representative to the school’s Board of Trustees. Smith received one of six 2016 Outstanding Educators Awards from Humanities Tennessee and the 2016 Belz-Lipman Holocaust Educator Award sponsored by the Tennessee Holocaust Commission. A model of lifelong learning, Smith spends his summers honing his teaching skills and expanding his breadth of knowledge. Among other projects, his summer professional development activity has included researching the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winner James Agee, a distinguished alumnus of St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, examining themes of religion, education, childhood, labor, and the transition to adulthood. Smith formerly taught at the All Saints' Academy in Winter Haven, Florida where he was chair of the History Department. He is a graduate of the University of the South.

Coach Lee maintains a passion for fitness and competition that he first discovered while playing high school lacrosse. He believes that athletic competition is an important element of a healthy lifestyle, which drove him to participate in a variety of recreational athletic leagues during college. To Coach Lee, habits off of the field — from nutrition to sleep — will influence performance on game day, and he seeks to assure that athletes practice self-care before and after practice or games.