University of California, Santa Barbara

Sam Smith joined UC Santa Barbara Athletics as an Assistant Sport Performance Coach in January 2021. Sam arrived at UCSB after an internship position at Delaware State University where he supervised Track and Field, Equestrian, Women’s Tennis, and Cheer. Prior to this he completed a Graduate Assistant position at Athletic Evolution in Woburn, MA.

As a former student at UCSB, he interned with the Sports Performance staff from 2017-2019 and was promoted to Volunteer Assistant Sports Performance Coach where he supervised Cross Country.

Sam graduated from Merrimack College in 2020 with a M.S. in Exercise Science and earned a B.S. in Physics from UCSB in 2019.

Originally from Baldwinsville, NY, he is CSCS and CPR/AED certified.