Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame
Stacey Bowers-Smith
- Induction:
- 2009
- Class:
- 2000
STACEY BOWERS SMITH, Waco, Texas (Track & Field, 1996-99) – 2009
Baylor track and field’s first and to date only individual NCAA national champion, Bowers won the 1999 outdoor triple jump with a leap of 45 feet, 10 inches on her final attempt after defending champion Trecia Smith of Pittsburgh had edged ahead of her.
A nine-time All-American and four-time conference champion, Bowers still holds the school records indoors (45-2 ½) and outdoors (46-1 ¼) and seven of the top 10 all-time marks 20 years after she wrapped up her Baylor career. She was also Baylor’s first female athlete to make a USA national team, competing in the 1998 Goodwill Games and 1999 World Championships and narrowly missing an Olympic berth in 2000.
Returning as an assistant coach in 2002 when she earned her master’s degree in sport management, she has coached 16 All-Americans, including 2014 NCAA indoor triple jump champion Felix Obi. Married to former Baylor football and basketball player Rodney Smith, Stacey was promoted to associate women’s track head coach in 2017, the same year she was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame.
HOF profile: https://baylorbears.com/news/2009/9/21/hall_of_fame_profile_stacey_smith.aspx
Baylor track and field’s first and to date only individual NCAA national champion, Bowers won the 1999 outdoor triple jump with a leap of 45 feet, 10 inches on her final attempt after defending champion Trecia Smith of Pittsburgh had edged ahead of her.
A nine-time All-American and four-time conference champion, Bowers still holds the school records indoors (45-2 ½) and outdoors (46-1 ¼) and seven of the top 10 all-time marks 20 years after she wrapped up her Baylor career. She was also Baylor’s first female athlete to make a USA national team, competing in the 1998 Goodwill Games and 1999 World Championships and narrowly missing an Olympic berth in 2000.
Returning as an assistant coach in 2002 when she earned her master’s degree in sport management, she has coached 16 All-Americans, including 2014 NCAA indoor triple jump champion Felix Obi. Married to former Baylor football and basketball player Rodney Smith, Stacey was promoted to associate women’s track head coach in 2017, the same year she was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame.
HOF profile: https://baylorbears.com/news/2009/9/21/hall_of_fame_profile_stacey_smith.aspx
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