Jarrod Smith, a former standout player and assistant coach at Northwest Missouri State, enters his third season as the women's tennis coach at Drury.  Smith helped the Panthers to their best ever finish his first season with an Elite 8 appearance and followed that up with a 19-6 record and "Sweet 16" finish in 2007.

Smith, 26, has spent two seasons as an assistant for both the men's and women's programs at NMSU. The women's squad qualified for the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals each season.

A Lee's Summit native, Smith was a standout player at NMSU as well, lettering all four seasons and earning six Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Associations championships (three in singles, three in doubles. He was a first-team all-MIAA selection each season from 2000-03.