Mike Smith - Northern Arizona University - Coach to Coach

As the Director of Cross Country and Track & Field after joining the NAU staff in August 2016, Mike Smith helped assist the men's cross country national championship winning team in the fall of '16 and took over as the director of both the school's track & field squads along with the cross country teams that following spring.

After taking control of the program completely in the Fall of 2017, Smith helped the men's cross country team to its second-consecutive NCAA National Championship, as well as a third-straight team title in the fall of 2018. Both his men's and women's teams swept the Big Sky Championships as well. Smith was honored with the Bill Dellinger Award for being the year's National Men's Coach of the Year and also picked up both the Big Sky's Men's and Women's Coach of the Year awards.

In Smith’s first year as the Director of Track & Field in the Spring of 2017, not only did his teams earn three Big Sky titles (Men's and Women's Indoor/Women's Outdoor), but he was also named the USTFCCCA Mountain Region Women’s Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year.  Smith was also named the Big Sky Indoor Men's Coach of the Year as well in his inaugural season with the program.