John T. Smith enters his fourth year as assistant baseball coach at Queens College, assisting Coach Reardon with hitting and fielding, as well as other duties as necessary.

When he accepted the assistant coaching position on Coach Reardon’s staff, Smith was reuniting with the Knights’ head coach after the two coached on the same Team NY Cardinals squad in 2005-06 and worked in the Rising Stars Winter Clinics. Elsewhere, Smith has served as the Hitting Instructor at the Bayside Batting and Pitching Academy since 2009, helping develop several young players to play baseball at the high school and collegiate levels.

Smith has spent time as a head coach as well, enjoying stints with the Bayside Bulldogs and the Queens Knights Travel Team. He was named the Bayside Little League Coach of the Year in 2003 and has won 11 championships including a New York City championship during this period.

As a player, Smith was a member of the Bishop Loughlin baseball team in Brooklyn, New York, where he was named a team captain and received Most Valuable Player Honors. Following his graduation, he moved on to John Jay College, where he played for the Bloodhounds.

Smith resides in New York with his wife, Kathy, and his two sons, Brian and Kevin.