2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 3 at 67 kg

Years on Team USA: 11 (2014-25)

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

2023 Senior World Championships (8th at 72 kg), 2021 Senior World Championships (19th at 72 kg) 2019 Senior World Championships (23rd at 77 kg), 2017 Senior World Championships (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 gold medalist
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

2024: Third at U.S. Olympic Team Trials…

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.

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