On July 1, 2024 John Smith was promoted to Associate Head Coach.
Smith has been an assistant coach with the Queens College baseball team since 2014. In this role, Smith is tasked with assisting Coach Reardon with hitting and fielding, as well as other duties as necessary.
Having completed his 11th season in 2024, the Knights finished the 2024 season setting a new regular season record for wins with 30, made the ECC Tournament for the fifth straight year, a program-record eight student-athletes earned All-ECC Honors, and one student-athlete earned All-American Honorable Mentions.
In his 10th season in 2023, the Knights finished with a program-best 34-19 overall record which included the program's second ECC title and first in 25 years. The Knights also earned the program's first NCAA Tournament victory, while helping guide a program-best seven ECC All-Conference Honors and three All-Regions honors.
When he accepted the assistant coaching position on Coach Reardon’s staff, Smith was reuniting with the Knights’ head coach after the two coached on the same Team NY Cardinals squad in 2005-06 and worked in the Rising Stars Winter Clinics. Elsewhere, Smith has served as the Hitting Instructor at the Bayside Batting and Pitching Academy since 2009, helping develop several young players to play baseball at the high school and collegiate levels.
Smith has spent time as a head coach as well, enjoying stints with the Bayside Bulldogs and the Queens Knights Travel Team. He was named the Bayside Little League Coach of the Year in 2003 and has won 11 championships including a New York City championship during this period.
As a player, Smith was a member of the Bishop Loughlin baseball team in Brooklyn, New York, where he was named a team captain and received Most Valuable Player Honors. Following his graduation, he moved on to John Jay College, where he played for the Bloodhounds.
Smith resides in Bayside and has two sons, Brian and Kevin, two granddaughters Nora and Olivia.
