MBU Athletics

Dr. Tom Smith served as the Director of Athletics for 20 years at Missouri Baptist University. Under Smith's direction, MBU won four NAIA national championships: women's indoor and outdoor track & Field (2006), and women's volleyball (2020-21, 2021), two NAIA national invitational titles in men's volleyball (2015, 2016), an NCA Advanced Small Coed Cheer Championship (2023), and numerous individual champions in track & field and wrestling.
 
He was recognized twice by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics as an Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year (2012-13, 2019-20) and five times as the American Midwest Conference AD of the Year (2004-05, 2009-10, 2012-13, 2018-19, 2022-23). He infused more than 400 additional student-athletes on MBU's campus by creating 18 new athletic programs at the varsity and junior varsity levels.
 
Smith was also instrumental in forming the Spartan Athletics Hall of Fame and is a member of the Parkway School District Hall of Fame (2014) and Missouri Sports Hall of Fame (2023).