Eddie Smith - Baseball Coach - Tulane University Athletics

Eddie Smith

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
esmith42@tulane.edu
Hometown:
Olympia, Wash.

Eddie Smith is in his third season as an assistant coach for the Tulane baseball team, while also serving as the recruiting coordinator for the program. Smith also coaches the Green Wave hitters and serves as third base coach.

In his 11 years as a coach, Smith has tutored 48 players that were drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft, including 23 selected in the top 10 rounds, and 13 players he has coached have played in the major leagues.

The Olympia, Wash., native spent four years before coming to New Orleans as head coach at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Wash. A graduate of Notre Dame, Smith has also coached at Virginia, Notre Dame and Santa Clara.

As head coach at Lower Columbia College, Smith compiled a 146-49 record in four years and led the Red Devils to three straight West Region titles and Northwest Athletic Conference championships in 2015 and 2017. He was named the 2015 ABCA/Diamond Pacific Association Division National Coach of the Year. In addition, 27 players received Division I opportunities after playing at Lower Columbia, and the 2015 team finished the season ranked No. 10 in the country.

Smith began coaching as an assistant at Virginia where he helped the program emerge as a national power in baseball, earning three ACC Championships and two College World Series appearances in five years. In 2012 he joined the Santa Clara coaching staff as the hitting and third base coach. He then became an assistant coach at Notre Dame in 2013. After a seven-year hiatus in the national polls, this Fighting Irish team garnered a No. 15 national ranking that season.

As a player, Smith spent two years at Notre Dame, where he helped the Fighting Irish to two Big East Conference Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances, including a No. 8 national ranking as a senior in 2006. He received his bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Notre Dame in 2006, and earned All-Big East academic honors.

Smith began his college career at Centralia Community College, helping the Trailblazers set a school record for wins in 2004. He was honored as a NWAC Red Lion scholar athlete that year, and was inducted in to the Centralia College Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.

Smith has also had stints in international coaching, spending time in the Dominican Republic, Aruba and Japan while also having played games in Russia and Canada. In the 2015 he was a member of the USA Baseball staff as an assistant coach with the 17U US National Team Development Program.