Stanford Athletics

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.

• 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.

• 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.