Stacey Smith

Biography

Stacey Smith is in her 24th season as a coach at Baylor working with the Bears' jumpers and fourth season as the associate head coach of the program. The most decorated women's athlete in program history, the former Stacey Bowers currently holds the Baylor outdoor and indoor record in the triple jump while claiming the first individual national title in women's program history when she won the 1999 NCAA outdoor triple jump title. Smith was promoted from assistant coach to associate women's track head coach during the summer of 2017, and then from associate women's coach to associate head coach in the summer of 2022. In almost two decades of coaching at her alma mater, Smith has been able to translate her personal collegiate success into success for the student-athletes she has mentored. She coached Felix Obi as he became Baylor's first national champion in the triple jump in the 2014 indoor season.