Todd Smoot begins his 16th season at the helm of the Blazers in 2025.
Smoot, a well known name in the running community throughout the southeast and has over 35 years of experience. With a diverse portfolio and experience as a part-time coach at VSU from 2008 through 2013, Reinhard is thrilled to bring Smoot back to the program.
"I'm very pleased to have Todd coming back and joining us again," stated Reinhard. "It's great to have somebody with not only his cross country experience, but also his experience with Valdosta State and our program. I'm thankful that he has been able to join us quickly to help get us going this fall, and I look forward to the success he'll bring moving forward."
While at VSU, Smoot has coached the young ladies and men to perform at their best in the classroom, course and in life. He places a high emphasis on academics throughout his tenure, which results in multiple All-Academic Gulf South Conference student-athletes and All-GSC Honor Roll.
In addition to his years at Valdosta State, Smoot's expansive list of experience includes employment with A Course/Line Event Production, where he spent time creating, designing, and measuring courses and timing events - many of which have been held locally - with detailed, accurate, and complete results. With his help, the company made tremendously generous contributions to Veterans of Lowndes County, local food banks, and Toys-for-Tots.
Since earning a chemistry degree at North Carolina State University, Smoot held a variety of positions as a chemical plant manager before starting his own specialty running shoe store in Valdosta during the mid 2000's known as Get Active Running and More.
His accomplishments as a runner earned him a spot and recognition on the NCSU Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor track teams in the early 1980's, where he set personal bests with a 4:16 minute mile run, a 9:20 minute two-mile run, and a 14:43 time 5K run. Other distances and times include 30:14.8 10K, 1:06:48 for 13.1 miles and 2:21:03 for the Marathon. His running experiences also include participation in competitive events in Boston - MA, Chicago - IL., Philadelphia - PA., Columbia - SC, Jacksonville - FL., Atlanta - GA., and Huntsville - AL.
