Mickey Smith has been an assistant sports information director at Saint Louis University since October 2007. Smith is the media relations contact for the Billikens’ women’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, softball and men’s and women’s tennis teams. He also is the secondary contact for men’s and women’s basketball, coordinating scorer’s table personnel and assisting the primary contacts in various other areas.
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A veteran of more than 30 years in intercollegiate athletics, Smith has worked at all three NCAA divisional levels. He previously was the sports information director at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, for almost 13 years following a two-year stint as sports information coordinator at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. Smith began his career with a two-year internship at Michigan State University, followed by a one-year internship at Southern Illinois University.
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The Arkadelphia, Arkansas, native is a 1985 magna cum laude graduate of Arkansas State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in radio-television. He earned a Master of Science degree in physical education/sports information at the University of Central Missouri in 1989.
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Smith is an avid fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Muny.