2023-24 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 72 kg
Years on Team USA: 10 (2014-24)
Residence: Minneapolis, Minn.
Club: Minnesota Storm
Personal Coaches: Dan Chandler and Brandon Paulson
College: Minnesota
Regional Training Center: Minnesota RTC
High School: Chaska (Minn.)
Born: Dec. 19, 1990
Height: 5-8
Past Senior World Teams
2021 Senior Worlds (19th at 72 kg) 2019 Senior Worlds (23rd at 77 kg), 2017 Senior Worlds (15th at 71 kg)
Past Age-Group World Teams
2017 World University Championships (silver at 71 kg)
Career Highlights:
- 2023 World team member
- 2021 World team member
- 2019 Pan American Games Champion
- 2019 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion
- 2017 U.S. World Team Trials champion
- Four-time Pan American champion (2015, 16, 17, 22)
- Nine-time U.S. National Team member
- 2014 University World silver medalist
- 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up
- 2017 U.S. Open champion
- Two-time U.S. World Team Trials runner-up (2014-15)
- Four-time U.S. Open runner-up (2014-16, 2023)
Career Biography:
2023: Final X champion…Senior World Team Trials Challenge champion…USMC U.S. Open runner-up…Thirteenth at Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial.
2022: Final X Stillwater champion…Senior Pan American champion…Bill Farrell Memorial International champion…Fifth at Slavin, Halfen, Weinberg, Gottfreund Memorial in freestyle at 79 kg…Slavin, Halfen, Weinberg, Gottfreund Memorial champion in Greco-Roman at 77 kg.
2021: Senior World team member… Fourth at 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Challenge Tournament… 19th at Senior Worlds… Fifth at Matteo Pellicone.
2020: Second at Pan American Championships… Second at Senior Nationals… 14th at Matteo Pellicone… Third at Senior Pan-American Olympic Games Qualifier.
2019: 23rd at World Championships... Pan American Games champion… Final X champion... World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion... U.S. Open runner-up... Dave Schultz Memorial International champion… Fifth place at Thor Masters (Denmark).
2018: Arvo Haavisto Cup (Finland) silver medalist… Haparanda Cup (Sweden) bronze medalist… SA Larikov bronze medalist...U.S. Open runner-up…Third at World Team Trials.
2017: U.S. World Team Trials champion… Pan American champion… U.S. Open champion…Third at Thor Masters.
2016: Second in U.S. Olympic Team Trials … Third at Non-Olympic Weight World Team Trials … Gold at Pan American championships… Second in U.S. Open… Ninth in the Grand Prix Zagreb Open.
2015: Second in U.S. World Team Trials… Second in U.S. Open… Pan American champion.
2014: Second in Phase II World Team Trials… Second in University World Championships… Second in U.S. Open.
2012: Second in Final Olympic Trials Qualifier.
2011: Fourth in Sunkist Kids International Open… Fourth in U.S. Open.
2010: University Nationals champion.
College: University of Minnesota, coached by J Robinson.
High School: Second in 2009 state tournament and third in 2008 for Chaska High School…Coached by Mike Houck and Ned Shuck.
Age-group Achievements: Two-time Junior Greco-Roman All-American… 2008 NHSCA Junior Folkstyle All-American.
Personal: Son of Harry and Sue Smith… Has an older brother, Zach, and an older sister, Sarah.