Recent W&L graduate
Sydney Smith ’24 is in her first season as Volunteer Assistant Coach for the W&L women's soccer team in 2024.
Smith makes her return to the confines of Alston Parker Watt Field after competing on the W&L women’s soccer team for four years. She compiled a 0.73 career goals-against average across 3,580:09 and a 0.801 save percentage across 45 appearances. Serving as the team’s full-time starter for her junior and senior seasons, Smith ended her career with a 27-6-9 record and 17 shutouts, the seventh-most clean sheets in program history. Additionally, her 0.73 career GAA is the sixth-best average in program history.
Smith tallied a 0.72 GAA in both seasons as the team’s starting keeper, with her efforts as a junior earning Smith a spot on the All-ODAC Second Team. She tallied nine clean sheets as a junior and had a 0.774 save percentage, before improving that mark to 0.827 as a senior, en route to another eight shutouts.
In the classroom, Smith earned W&L Scholar Athlete status six times, ODAC All-Academic Team honors all four years and claimed College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District laurels twice. Smith also served as the secretary of Alpha Epsilon Delta (National Health Pre-Professional Honor Society) and was a member of the Red-Cross Club and Pre-Health Club.
Smith will assist the coaching staff of Pins and Robert Tomecek at practices and games, while working most closely with the team’s goalkeepers.
