Utah Valley University Athletics

Paul Smith was promoted to Associate Head Coach of the Utah Valley University Track & Field programs in August of 2023 and enters his 16th year with the program this coming season. 
 
Smith has been with UVU since 2008 and specializes in sprints, jumps, and hurdles, and during his time has produced four All-American honors and 28 individual WAC Champions. He helped lead the Wolverines to WAC Championships in men’s outdoor (2015 and 2019) and an indoor men’s championship in 2015.
 
Smith has produced 35 NCAA Championship qualifying athletes, including All-American sprinter Nicholas Taylor, who became UVU’s first-ever dual All-American with top-16 finishes in the 100-meter and 200-meter dash at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. His most recent All-American came in 2022 when Aaron Johnson advance to the long jump finals.
 
After the 2016-17 campaign, Smith was named Assistant Coach of the Year at the Wolverine Club Athletic Awards banquet. He has been a part of the coaching staff for 15 team conference championships during the program’s tenure Great West Conference and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).

Before entering the coaching ranks, Smith enjoyed a three-year career as a sprinter from 2003-2006 at Brigham Young University where he was an NCAA qualifier in three events. Among those events, Smith was an NCAA qualifier three times in the 4x100 relay, two-time NCAA qualifier in the 4x400 relay and one-time qualifier in the 200-meter dash.
 
Prior to joining UVU’s coaching staff, Smith worked as an assistant coach of the track and field team at Timpview High School in Provo, Utah, from 2007-2008.
 
Smith and Stephanie Williams are the parents of two children, Davi Williams and Ezekiel Smith, and reside in Kaysville, Utah.