Nate Smith, who is entering his third season at Oberlin, has been elevated to associate head basketball coach.

Working closing with Oberlin post players, Smith helped guide senior Dorde Otasevic to All-NCAC second-team honors after he set career-highs in points (379), points per game (14.6), rebounds (260), rebounds per game (10.0), blocks (38), steals (34), assists (39), 3-pointers (51) and 3-point field goal percentage (.370).

Smith came to Oberlin after a long stint at NCAA Division I Sacramento State University, working his way up from video coordinator (2011-13), to director of basketball operations (2013-17), to assistant coach (2017-22). 

Smith was a part of the two most successful seasons in program history at Sacramento State, which included a 16-win season in 2019-20. Since transitioning into an assistant coach role, he recruited and developed eight All-Big Sky selections. In 2020, he instructed the nation’s fifth-ranked scoring defense and the conference’s second-ranked unit in rebounding margin. 

Smith was also part of a staff that saw the 2014-15 squad post a 21-12 overall record and a 13-5 mark in the Big Sky Conference while securing the program’s first postseason appearance in the Division I era (1991-pres.), and the team’s first postseason victory in 53 years.

He graduated from Sacramento State in 2014 with a degree in Kinesiology.

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