Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

Randy Smith, long time member of the Health and Physical Education Department at Minnesota State University Moorhead, served as the head women’s cross country and track and field coach from 1979 to 1994. During that 15 year period he guided the Dragons to four conference and four District 13 cross country team titles. His teams finished in the top 10 three times at the national championships and earned two All-Americans. In track and field the conference team title was awarded to the Dragons nine straight years and his teams had eight top ten finishes in the indoor and outdoor national championships. He coached 10 student-athletes to national champion status 20 times and 12 others were runner-ups. He produced four consecutive national relay titles with the 1982 two-mile relay squad establishing a NAIA National Record. He garnered numerous NSIC cross country, indoor and outdoor coach of the year honors and was recently inducted into the MSUM Hall of Fame. Randy completed at the University of Kansas where he was a seven-time All American in the high jump utilizing the straddle technique. Following his 1974 NCAA and USA Track and Field champion titles he was ranked 3rd in the U.S. and 10th in the world. In 1991 he was inducted into the University of Kansas Athletic Hall of Fame.