Hall of Fame
At the time of her retirement in 2014, Smith served as senior associate director of athletics and senior woman administrator, a role she held since 2012. She continued to serve part-time as athletic business manager until March of 2017 before returning as interim director of athletics in July of 2017. Smith began her career at Missouri Western in the fall of 1990 as a tennis student-athlete and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in accounting in 1995.  In 1994, Smith became the head women's tennis coach and led the team to its first-ever NCAA Tournament in 1998. That same year, she became the first athletics business manager at Missouri Western. She served in the roles of compliance and academics, director of finance, assistant athletics director and finally senior associate director of athletics and senior woman administrator.
