An open letter from father to son (NCAA.com; Jan. 7, 2016)
TFRRS Performance Profile
* All-American *
Personal bests (thru 2019):
- 800: 1:50.28
- 1,500: 3:52.92
- 600: 1:19.74i
- 1,000: 2:32.05i
As a senior (2018-19):
Outdoors
- Did not compete.
Indoors
- Ran season best in 800 of 1:54.23 at the Husky Classic.
Cross country
- Did not compete.
As a junior (2017-18):
Outdoors
- Fourth in the top section of the Payton Jordan Invitational 800 in a best of 1:50.28.
- Ran 1,500 best of 3:52.92 at the Stanford Invitational.
- Pac-12 All-Academic second team.
Indoors
- MPSF All-Academic.
Cross country
- Did not compete.
As a sophomore (2016-17):
Outdoors
- USTFCCCA All-Academic selection.
- Pac-12 All-Academic second team.
Indoors
- Earned second-team All-America honors for running the third leg on Stanford's 12th-place distance medley relay team at the NCAA Championships.
- Lost a shoe on the exchange and later had a fall during his NCAA debut.
- Ran a 1:48.7 split on Stanford's second place distance medley relay team at the Alex Wilson Invitational.
- The team ran 9:28.72, the No. 3 time in Stanford history and fast enough to get Smith into his first NCAA Championships.
- Ran the 800 leg of Stanford's second-place distance medley relay team at the Penn State National Open.
- Set indoor 800 personal best of 1:50.72 at the Husky Classic.
- MPSF All-Academic selection.
Cross country
- Made collegiate cross country debut at Stanford Invitational, placing 100th.
As a freshman (2015-16):
Outdoors
- Made collegiate debut at Cal Outdoor Opener in the rain on March 5, running 1:54.08 for second in the 800.
- Improved his time five times during the season, with best of 1:50.53 in first round at Pac-12 Championships.
Indoors
- Did not compete.
Cross country
- Did not compete.
High School:
- An American half-miler who attended the International School of Amsterdam.
- Has a personal record of 1:51.95 in the 800, which placed among the top 15 U.S. high school juniors in 2014.
- Ran for The International School of Amsterdam and the Dutch club AV Startbaan.
- Two-time USATF Junior Olympic All –American in the 800.
- Second at the 2014 USATFJunior Olympic nationals and third in 2013.
- Dutch national age-group 800 champion as a 15-year-old.
- Averaged 22 points per game in basketball as team captain and was the Northern European independent high school tournament MVP.
Personal:
- Parents Steven Smith and Peggy Brannigan met at Stanford.
- Brian's sister, Shannon (’15, co-term ’16), was the setter on the Stanford team that won the 2015 National Club Volleyball 1AA Silver national championship.
- Father, Steven Smith, is an astronaut, flying on four Space Shuttle missions between 1994-2002.
- Steven also played on two of Stanford’s NCAA championship water polo teams, in 1978 and 1980, and is a San Jose native.
- Majoring in biology.
- Speaks French and Spanish.
Career results:
| Year | Season (meets) | Event | Season best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2018-19 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (4) | 800 | 1:54.23 | 22 (1:54.56) | -- | -- | |
| Cross country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2017-18 | Outdoors (8) | 800 | 1:50.28 | 10 (1:51.70) | -- | -- |
| 1,500 | 3:52.92 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:19.38 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (3) | 800 | 1:51.71 | 12 (1:54.22) | -- | -- | |
| DMR | 9:51.26 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2016-17 | Outdoors (3) | 800 | 1:53.99 | -- | -- | -- |
| 1,500 | 3:54.01 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:18.73 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (6) | 800 | 1:50.72 | 7 (1:51.32) | -- | -- | |
| 600 | 1:19.74 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 9:28.72 | -- | -- | 12 (10:00.77) | ||
| 4x400 | 3:20.67 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross country (1) | 8K | 25:47.0 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2015-16 | Outdoors (9) | 800 | 1:50.53 | 10 (1:50.53) | -- | -- |
| 4x400 | 3:18.19 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |