Primary Media Contact for: Baseball, Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Golf, Women's Soccer, Women's Swimming.
Ron Smith has served as the Sports Information Director for Westmont College since July 1, 2004. A member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the NAIA Sports Information Directors Association (NAIA-SIDA), Smith currently serves as second vice president for NAIA-SIDA. He served previous terms as an NAIA-SIDA board member from 2009-2012, 2013-2015.
From January of 2008 through January of 2010, and again from May of 2016 to May of 2019. Smith served as the SID representative to the Golden State Athletic Conference Administrative Committee. Smith also has served on numerous NAIA and GSAC Player of the Week selection committees.
During his 15 years at Westmont, Smith has helped to develop the services of the sports information office. Some of those developments include:
- In 2016, led the conversion of the Westmont Athletics website from an in-house production to a SIDEARM site.
- Implementation of live, high definition video broadcasting of home events for eight of Westmont’s teams (men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, baseball, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s track and field).
- Creation of the Warrior Update weekly email publication
- Improved Westmont’s game day operations.
- Developed Westmont Athletics social media accounts.
- In 2005, redesigned the Westmont Athletics website including creation of athlete profile and statistical databases.
Smith has won numerous awards from the NAIA-SIDA Publication Contest including four-first place awards for media guide production and two first place awards for writing. He also received first place in District Eight (Western US) in CoSIDA’s Fred S. Stabley, Sr. Writing Contest in the category of event coverage. In May of 2011, Smith was one of three recipients of Westmont’s Employee of the Year Award and is a 2013 recipient of the Karen Holms Award for care and mentorship of student employees. Smith was also honored as the 2015, 2018 and 2020 GSAC SID of the Year. In June of 2017, Smith received the prestigious NAIA-SIDA Clarence "Ike" Pearson Award which "honors outstanding contributions to the profession".
Before coming to Westmont, Smith was the owner/operator of Santa Barbara WebSmith for a period of four years. Prior to that, he served 17 years in local ministry - eight as campus minister for the Turnpike Road Church of Christ and nine as the congregational minister for the same church.
Ron and his wife Leslie have three grown children (Hannah, Josh and Naomi) and four granddaughters (Cailyn, Jaana, Ellie and Isabelle).
