Smith has spent a large portion of her life in a gym and around the game of basketball. Whether she was playing the game or coaching the game, her level of commitment to the sport has remained.

The former Ginny Moore grew up in southwest Arkansas and attended Caddo Hills High School, where her team won the 1997 Arkansas Class A state championship. At the end of that season, she was named MVP of the 1997 all-tournament team and the 1997 Arkansas Miss Basketball.

She continued with basketball at Arkansas Tech University, where the Golden Suns made an NCAA Division II Tournament appearance in each season of her career with a national runner-up finish in 1998-99. During her career at ATU, she totaled 1,219 points, 230 assists, 120 steals and 127 3-pointers in 93 games as the team compiled a 103-28 record. She was named second-team all-Gulf South Conference in 2000 and first-team all-GSC in 2001.

After graduating in 2002, Smith spent four years in Arkansas as a teacher and coach before moving to Indiana. She was an assistant coach to Shane Sumpter with the Westfield girls from 2008-15, then succeeded Sumpter as the Shamrocks’ head coach starting in the 2015-16 season. She twice has been selected HCC Coach of Year during her tenure as the Westfield head coach.

Smith, who earned a master’s degree from American College of Education in 2011, also is completing her third year as assistant athletic director at Westfield.