Staff Directory
Jennifer Smith
- Title:
- Head Coach
A winner, proven championship-winning head coach, and one of the program's all-time great players, Jen Smith '02/'04M has returned to Millersville University as its head women's basketball coach in 2026.
Smith, the 2024 PSAC East Coach of the Year, spent the last 18 seasons building Lock Haven into the class of the PSAC Eastern Division, winning three consecutive division crowns. With 237 career wins, Smith is coming off an historic three-season stretch, setting a record with 29 wins and the program’s first NCAA Tournament berth in 2023-24. Lock Haven won at least 20 games each season from 2023-2026. The 2023-24 team went 21-1 in conference play, and the 2025-26 team went 16-0 against the PSAC East. Her teams have ranked in the PSAC’s top five in scoring defense and the top two in rebounding margin three seasons in a row. The 2025-26 club led all of Division II in rebounding margin, out-rebounding opponents by nearly 15 boards per game.
Smith began her coaching career as a volunteer assistant under Fleig and landed her first head coaching role at Goldey-Beacom just four years after graduating from Millersville. Smith won 18 games in her second season and returned to the PSAC where she inherited a Lock Haven program that had just one above-.500 season in its previous 16 years. With toughness and a defensive-minded mentality, Smith took Lock Haven to new heights over the last seven years with six winning seasons and seven consecutive PSAC Tournament berths.
In the last decade, Smith recruited and developed 19 All-PSAC East honorees. In 2025-26, Smith helped Madeline Evans become the first All-American in Lock Haven’s history. Evans was named the PSAC East Defensive Athlete of the Year, the third of Smith’s tenure. Smith coached Alana Robinson to the PSAC East Athlete of the Year award after winning the freshman of the year honor in 2023 and the top defensive honor in 2024.
Smith starred for the Marauders from 1998-2002, earning All-PSAC East honors as a senior and helping Mary Fleig’s teams to PSAC East titles in 2000 and 2002. Smith was also an All-American javelin thrower and the Elwood J. Finley Athlete of the Year Award winner. Smith set a Millersville record with 120 games played. She still ranks 10th in program history in 3-pointers, 16th in career free throws while owning the fifth-best free throw percentage. She also ranks 18th all-time in assists and set a single-game record on Jan. 13, 2002, with seven 3-pointers. Smith played on four 20-win teams and helped the Marauders to three NCAA Tournament appearances. She was named to the program's All-75th Season Team.
Smith earned a bachelor's degree in communications and public relations in 2002 and a master's degree in sport management and administration in 2004 while serving as a graduate assistant in the athletic communications office.
Smith, the 2024 PSAC East Coach of the Year, spent the last 18 seasons building Lock Haven into the class of the PSAC Eastern Division, winning three consecutive division crowns. With 237 career wins, Smith is coming off an historic three-season stretch, setting a record with 29 wins and the program’s first NCAA Tournament berth in 2023-24. Lock Haven won at least 20 games each season from 2023-2026. The 2023-24 team went 21-1 in conference play, and the 2025-26 team went 16-0 against the PSAC East. Her teams have ranked in the PSAC’s top five in scoring defense and the top two in rebounding margin three seasons in a row. The 2025-26 club led all of Division II in rebounding margin, out-rebounding opponents by nearly 15 boards per game.
Smith began her coaching career as a volunteer assistant under Fleig and landed her first head coaching role at Goldey-Beacom just four years after graduating from Millersville. Smith won 18 games in her second season and returned to the PSAC where she inherited a Lock Haven program that had just one above-.500 season in its previous 16 years. With toughness and a defensive-minded mentality, Smith took Lock Haven to new heights over the last seven years with six winning seasons and seven consecutive PSAC Tournament berths.
In the last decade, Smith recruited and developed 19 All-PSAC East honorees. In 2025-26, Smith helped Madeline Evans become the first All-American in Lock Haven’s history. Evans was named the PSAC East Defensive Athlete of the Year, the third of Smith’s tenure. Smith coached Alana Robinson to the PSAC East Athlete of the Year award after winning the freshman of the year honor in 2023 and the top defensive honor in 2024.
Smith starred for the Marauders from 1998-2002, earning All-PSAC East honors as a senior and helping Mary Fleig’s teams to PSAC East titles in 2000 and 2002. Smith was also an All-American javelin thrower and the Elwood J. Finley Athlete of the Year Award winner. Smith set a Millersville record with 120 games played. She still ranks 10th in program history in 3-pointers, 16th in career free throws while owning the fifth-best free throw percentage. She also ranks 18th all-time in assists and set a single-game record on Jan. 13, 2002, with seven 3-pointers. Smith played on four 20-win teams and helped the Marauders to three NCAA Tournament appearances. She was named to the program's All-75th Season Team.
Smith earned a bachelor's degree in communications and public relations in 2002 and a master's degree in sport management and administration in 2004 while serving as a graduate assistant in the athletic communications office.
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