Ahmaad Smith - Football Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

Ahmaad Smith

Title:
Assistant Coach - Nickels
Alma Mater:
Tennessee State ’06
Email:
ahmaad.deshan.smith@dartmouth.edu
At Dartmouth:
2nd Season (2021-)

Recruiting Area: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia

Ahmaad Smith, who joined the Dartmouth football staff originally as a defensive assistant in the summer of 2021, was promoted shortly thereafter to the nickelbacks and assistant secondary coach.

Smith spent the past three years as the defensive backs coach at his alma mater, Tennessee State, under head coach Rod Reed. Prior to his return to the Tigers, he coached the defensive backs at Catawba College in North Carolina for three years, producing two Super Region defensive backs, one of whom was a second-team All-American.

From 2012-14, Smith was the defensive backs assistant at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where he mentored five all-conference defensive backs. He also was a runner-up for the AFCA Division III Asssistant Coach of the Year in 2013.

A two-time recipient of the Bill Walsh Internship Program, Smith spent time with the Tennessee Titans in 2015 and the Minnesota Vikings in 2017. He completed an internship with the Calgary Stampede of the CFL in 2016, and was a 2017 NFL and NCAA Coaching Academy Participant as well as a 2018 AFCA 35 Under-35 Coaches Leadership Institute Participant.

Smith graduated from Tennessee State in 2006 with a degree in business information systems and was a four-time letter winner on the football team. He then spent five years playing professional football in various leagues and signed briefly with the BC Lions and Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, He also played for the Mississippi MudCats of the American Indoor Football Association (2007), the Texas Copperheads of the af2 (2007) and the Iowa Barnstormers of the Arena Football League (2009-10).