Tim Smith enters his first season as the wide receivers coach at Norfolk State in 2024.
Smith spent the 2023 season as the wide receivers coach for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Under his direction and mentorship, Tiger-Cats receiver Tim White led the league in receiving yards (1,269) while producing 21 touchdowns to earn a spot on the East Division All-Star Team.
Smith spent one year as the wide receivers coach at Valparaiso in 2022, also overseeing the punt return special teams unit. The Beacons won three league road games that year for the first time 1962, led by a potent passing attack. Valpo accumulated 463 yards of offense against Presbyterian, the program’s highest single-game total in over four years. Smith was part of the program’s first-ever win at Maris, as well as the team’s first win at Morehead State since 2006.
Wide receiver Solomon Davis was selected to the All-PFL First Team under Smith’s guidance, entering the season with one total catch in his three-year career prior. Wideouts Matt Ross and Braden Contreras earned All-PFL Honorable Mention accolades as well.
Smith served as the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Lincoln University (Pa.) from 2018-21. Smith’s offense finished fourth in the CIAA in yards in 2019, as freshman wide receiver Dahmear Triplet landed on the All-CIAA Second Team and All-CIAA Rookie Team.
Smith began his coaching career as the wide receivers coach at his alma mater Oscar Smith High School in 2015, before becoming the team’s offensive coordinator. During his time there from 2015-17, Oscar Smith reached the state championship game in all three years and produced multiple all-state, all-region, all-tidewater and all-district players.
A four-year letterwinner at Virginia as a player, Smith finished his career ninth in the program’s all-time history with 1,591 receiving yards. His playing career reached the professional ranks, competing at multiple NFL training camps (Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns) before playing in the CFL for the Edmonton Eskimos and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Smith graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. He and his wife, Kiera, have one daughter, Kassidy.
