Tyler Smith is in his first season as assistant director of football strength and conditioning at Georgia Tech.
Smith is familiar with Georgia Tech director of football strength and performance A.J. Artis after being a part of Artis’ staffs at USF and Tennessee. Smith originally joined Artis as assistant director of football performance at UT in January 2021, then went to USF to be an assistant strength and conditioning under Artis three months later.
Smith’s experience at the FBS level also includes stints as a strength and conditioning intern at South Carolina in 2019 and at Duke in 2016. He has also gained extensive experience as head strength and conditioning coach at a trio of high schools – Airport H.S. (West Columbia, S.C. – 2017-18), River Bluff H.S. (Lexington, S.C. – 2018-19) and St. Joseph’s Catholic School (Greenville, S.C. – 2020).
Smith played collegiately at South Carolina State, where he served as special teams captain in 2014 and helped lead the Bulldogs to back-to-back Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championships (2013-14) and an NCAA Division I FCS playoff appearance in 2013.
He graduated from S.C. State with a bachelor’s degree in physical activity management in 2016. He and his wife, Kalifa, have a daughter, Ava Noelle.
