Lauren Smith is in her third season on the coaching staff and second as an assistant coach after spending the 2019 season as a graduate assistant.

Before arriving at Morehead State, Smith was a goalkeeper for the University of Nebraska where she graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor's Degree in psychology and a minor in communication studies. 

While at Nebraska, she was named Academic All-Big Ten in 2017 and 2018 as well as being a six-time Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll recipient. She also made Nebraska's Tom Osbourne Citizenship Team all four years of her college career.

Smith, a native of Glenview, Ill., has also been a coach for both the Kentucky Olympic Development Program (ODP) and Commonwealth SC since 2019.