Brian Smith is entering his third season on the Georgia coaching staff after spending four seasons at Northern Arizona, where his primary responsibility was in coaching strokes and sprints.

Smith helps coach Georgia's sprinters. Last season, under Smith's tutelage, Morgan Scroggy placed second in the 200-yard freestyle and fourth in the 100 freestyle at the NCAA Championship. Also at the NCAAs in the 200, Allison Schmitt came in third, Chelsea Nauta placed eighth and Erica Malagón finished 16th. Smith guided Anne-Marie Botek and Scroggy to Southeastern Conference titles in the 50 and 100 freestyle, respectively. Schmitt (200 freestyle), Michael Arnold (100 freestyle) and Peter Benner (200 freestyle) set school records, and Schmitt and Benner was chosen as the SEC Freshmen of the Year.

In 2008, Scroggy earned All-America honors in the 200 freestyle at the NCAAs and Nauta added a top-10 finish in the 200. Nauta also medaled at the SECs in the 200.

Smith's collegiate experience began in 1991 when he started a two-year stint at Arizona State, first as a graduate assistant and then as assistant coach for the women's team. He was involved in travel, recruiting and dryland training for the squad, which ranked 13th nationally in 1992 and ninth in 1993.

After Arizona State, Smith served five years on the staff at Rice, serving as an assistant for the men's and women's teams. He was part of a staff that produced the program's first Division I NCAA Championship qualifiers (1994) and continued to qualify athletes for five straight years. Smith served as the recruiting coordinator, travel coordinator, alumni liaison, strength and conditioning liaison, and sprinting coach. The women broke 17 of 18 school records in the five years he was there, and the men broke 13 marks.

Smith also served as a graduate assistant coach at Ohio University in 1990-91.

He is a 1990 graduate of Clark University in Massachusetts, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics. He followed that with a master's in athletic administration from Ohio in 1991.

Smith and his wife, Alyssa, have three daughters, Olivia, Ella and Gwyneth.