Robert Smith (1985-present)

Record: 348-395-5

Bob “Smitty” Smith has been a part of the Middlebury Baseball program for 35 years now, approaching 30 years as Head Coach. Under Coach Smith, Middlebury has won its first NESCAC Championship and advanced to the first NCAA Baseball tournament in school history. With 348 career wins, Smith currently needs only two victories to reach the 350 win mark for his career. While his teams play more games than past squads, heading into the 2014 season Smith has 221 more victories than the second winningest coach Wendy Forbes, and shows no signs of slowing down.

Smith’s teams have also gone down in the record books for other achievements such as having the second highest team batting average in the NCAA in 2006 (with a combined team average of .361). In his 29-year tenure as head coach, Smith has also won two NESCAC Coach of the Year awards; both for the 1999 season, and the 2006 NESCAC Championship team, as well as winning the “Edward P. Markey Award” in 1999 which is an award given to the person who has made outstanding contributions to Vermont Collegiate Baseball.