Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith enters her 11th season as head coach of the Babson women's lacrosse program in 2021-22.

A two-time NEWMAC Coach of the Year honoree, Smith has helped the Beavers claim four conference regular season titles and three league tournament championships over her first 10 years at the helm. The Green and White went unbeaten in NEWMAC play and reached the conference tournament final in 2016 before advancing to the second round of the NCAA Tournament after winning back-to-back conference tournament crowns in 2017 and 2018.

Smith guided Babson to an unbeaten conference record and a third regular season title in four years in 2019, and got the Beavers back to the NCAA Tournament thanks to another NEWMAC Tournament championship in 2021.

In her first season at the helm in 2012, Smith guided the Beavers to a 13-3 record - which included a 12-game winning streak - as well as the number one seed in the NEWMAC Tournament and a trip to the league championship game. She then led her team to nine more wins and its second straight NEWMAC Finals appearance in 2013, followed by a third consecutive conference championship game in 2014.

Overall, Smith's teams have reached the NEWMAC Tournament final eight times in nine tries going back to 2012.

A graduate of Trinity College, where she received her Bachelor's degree in 2008 and her Master's degree in 2011, Smith began her coaching career with a one-year stint as an assistant for the women's lacrosse program at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She then returned to her alma mater in 2009, where she has served as the assistant women's lacrosse and field hockey coach for two years.

Smith enjoyed a legendary playing career at Trinity, leading the Bantams' lacrosse team to NCAA Tournament appearances in each of her final two seasons, including a trip to the regional finals in 2007. She was a three-time All-NESCAC and All-Region honoree, and she was selected as a First Team All-American and the C. Kelly Markland Award winner for the Division III Goalie of the Year in 2007. She graduated as the program's all-time leader in saves and was named team captain in 2008.

In addition to collegiate coaching, Smith has been highly involved in a number of lacrosse camps and clubs throughout the northeast, including the Peak Performance Goalie Camp for the past six years and the Elite 180 Girls Camp for the last five.

Smith, whose brother Chris recently graduated from Babson as a member of the Class of 2011, also assists in the oversight of the College's athletic facilities.