Bio

DAVID W. SMITH is in his third season as a Our Lady of the Lake University men’s basketball assistant coach.

Smith was an assistant at Trinity University in San Antonio prior to joining the Saints.

Smith served in the United States Army for more than 23 years and retired at Major's rank. In that time period, he also gained invaluable coaching experience. He was the head coach of the Men’s All-Army Basketball Team from 2009-2012, which required selecting 22 players from a pool of 250 applicants each year. During his time as the head coach, the All-Army Team had many extremely talented players to include former D1 and D2 conference players of the year and several overseas professional players.

The versatile Smith also was a four-time head coach, two-time assistant coach and chief of mission for the men’s All-Armed Forces (USA) Team from 2009-2012. He played a major role in training the team to compete at a national (Olympic) level.

Smith’s teams won gold, silver and bronze medals at numerous tournaments, including the Armed Forces Basketball Championships, the World Military Games, and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) international tournament.

He received several commendations from the Army, where he served as a company commander in a combat theater of operations. Smith also was a member of the White House Communications Agency in Washington, D.C.

In 2014, Smith received a master’s degree in management/logistics management from the Florida Institute of Technology. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in justice administration from Hawaii Pacific University in 2004.

Smith has been married for more than 20 years to Dina Smith, also a retired Army major, with 26 years of service. They have two children, Lonnie and Lorin.