Biography:

Coach Smith has been coaching XC/track and field around the world for the last 20 years mostly in Europe. He is a former Division I Cross Country All-American (1992-10th place) from the University of Michigan. He was also 4-time All-Big Ten and Captain of the track and cross country teams. He has a Masters and Bachelors in Education from the University of Michigan and a Leadership Endorsement from the University of Virginia. His two daughters who are both accomplished runners. 

Coach Smith’s main motivation for coaching is to help student-athletes achieve their goals by working hard, showing outstanding sportsmanship, and being a good teammate. He has also had some success along the way at the U-18 level while coaching internationally. His teams have won a combined total of 29 European Championships in the ISST, DODDS, and CEESA leagues which includes junior girls and boys and senior girls and boys, teams. His athletes have broken 121 school records, 6 conference records, and 105 athletes have been individual league champions. He has also been blessed to coach three individual National Champions in Belgium-1500m, 3000m, Netherlands-Indoor 1500m, and USA U-20 Discus. In 2021 Coach Smith's first year at Falls Church we had 2 athletes make All State for Indoor Track, 5 athletes make All State for Outdoor Track,  and two school records broken.

Biography:

Coach Day rejoined the Jaguar Coaching Staff in Spring 2015 as our Shot Put and Discus coach.  He is a proud FCHS Alumnus from the Class of 1977.  He still holds the Shot Put School Record of 53’ 11”. The then Head Coach Major Wells, along with Coaches’ Morris and Ake, were his coaches back then… Coach Day graduated from VA Tech (‘81) with a B.A. in Geography which he would use for 31 years at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he retired from in Jan 2015.  Interestingly, Coach Day actually taught at FCHS right out of Tech, first year as a substitute teacher and then the following year as a Biology Teacher! At the end of the second year he accepted his "career" job at DIA. While teaching here he began his coaching experience with the track team.  Once the Defense Department hired him (June 1983) he would periodically come back, when requested, to offer pointers to the students.  Coach Day is quite pleased at this unique opportunity to return, yet again, to his beloved high school and its awesome student athletes!  “Practice, practice, practice” is his philosophy re success with shot and discus along with being a student of the physics of the sport.