2013-14: Indoor, won the 3,000-meter in 8:14.72 at the Big South Championship ... Finished as runner-up in the mile at Big South Championship in career-best 4:09.07 ... Came in fifth at Big South Championship in 5,000-meter race with time of 14:41.35 ... Ran career-best 1:58.31 in 800-meter to finish third at HPU Team Challenge ... Member of DMR team that was runner-up at HPU Team Challenge with mark of 10:04.27. Outdoor, runner-up in the 1500-meter at the VertKlasse Meeting finishing in 3:48.65 ... Placed third at the Wake Forest Open in the 1500-meter crossing in 3:48.97.
2012-13: Redshirted the indoor and outdoor track seasons after winning the 2012 Big South cross country title ... competing unattached, was runner-up in the indoor mile at the Hilton Garden Invitational with a time of 4:11.17 ... Outdoors, won the 3,000-meter at the Wake Forest Open and won the 1,500-meter at the WSSU Collegiate Invitational ... Big South Presidential Honor Roll and Millis Scholar-Athlete.
2011-12: Double winner at both the Big South Indoor Championship and Big South Outdoor Championship ... Ran indoor career bests to win both the 3,000-meter (8:20.71) and 5,000-meter (14:30.42) at the Big South Championship ... Won the mile in an indoor-best 4:10.49 at the JDL Fast Track Invitational ... Outdoors, won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8:54.56 and won the 5,000-meter in 14:24.66 at the Big South Championship ... Opened the outdoor season with an HPU record 8:13.97 to win the 3,000-meter at the Wake Forest Open ... Won the 1,500-meter in 3:48.14 at the HPU VertKlasse Meeting ... Ran a career-best 14:01.66 to place eighth in the 5,000-meter at the Colonial Relays ... Won the 1,500-meter in a career-best 3:46.65 at the Duke Twilight ... Lowered his HPU record to 8:47.09 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, placing 12th in the NCAA Preliminary in Jacksonville, Fla.; became the first HPU men's track athlete to qualify for the NCAA Final since 2005 ... Finished 19th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Championship in Des Moines, Iowa ... Millis Scholar-Athlete.
2010-11: Breakthrough outdoor season was highlighted by an HPU-record 8:54.24 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, good for a runner-up finish to Liberty All-American Evans Kigen at the Big South Championship; also placed third in the 5,000-meter at the conference meet ... Placed 18th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8:58.10 at the first round of the NCAA Championship ... Opened the outdoor season with a victory in the 3,000-meter in a career-best 8:19.19 at the Wake Forest Open ... Won the steeplechase at the Raleigh Relays in 9:00.56 ... Ran a career-best 4:09.91 to place second in the mile at the HPU VertKlasse Meeting ... Indoors, placed fifth in the 3,000-meter and sixth in the mile at the Big South Championship ... Won the mile at the Kent Taylor Run for the Kids.
2009-10: In his indoor season debut, placed fifth in the mile in 4:16.87 at the ETSU Noswinger Invitational ... Took 20th in the 3,000-meter in 8:34.81 at the Washington Husky Classic ... Placed ninth in the mile and 12th in the 3,000-meter at the Big South Indoor Championship ... Placed fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:34.69 and ran on the seventh-place 4x400 relay at the Big South Outdoor Championship.
Prep: Represented Canada at the 2009 IAAF World Youth Championships in the 2,000-meter steeplechase, placing 11th ... Helped team to the OFSAA cross country championship in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and the OFSAA overall boys' championship from 2005-07 ... Set school records in the indoor 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter.
Personal: Majoring in Biochemistry and Exercise Science at HPU ... Son of Mark and Karen Jodie and Dena ... Born Jacob Reginald Smith on April 12, 1990.
