Natasha Smith

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Gloucester, MA
High School:
Waring

2010 Outdoor Track & Field: Did not competedue to injury.

2009-10 Indoor Track & Field: Did notcompete due to injury.

2009 indoor season: An injury sustainedin January kept Natasha out of running and jumping events for mostof the season ... Throwing only shot put at most early meets, shemanaged to push her personal best to 38'-4.5'' ... The weekbefore the Ivy League Championships, Natasha tore her ACL duringthe long jump at USATF-New Englands at Harvard ... The injury tookher out of the remainder of the indoor season as well as theupcoming outdoor season.

2008outdoor season: First Team All-Ivy selection and 2008Track & Field Freshman Woman of the Year ... Again, theHeptagonal championships at Yale marked the highlight of Natasha'sseason ... She defended her multi-event title with a first-placefinish in the Heptathlon where she PR'd in the 100m hurdles and thejavelin ... Her score of 4992 was 58 points shy of the Nationalprovisional mark ... Natasha also placed 4th in the high jump andcompeted in the open javelin. She went on to compete atECAC's in the javelin.

2008 indoor season: First Team All-Ivyselection ... Natasha's best performances came at the Heptagonalchampionships at Cornell University where she placed first in thepentathlon and third in the high jump ... In the pentathlon, sheset personal records in four of the five events, and her score of3690 points was 10 points off the provisional qualifying mark forNationals.

Outdoor Personal Records:
Heptathlon - 4992
100m hurdles - 15.06
Shot put - 39'11'
Javelin - 136'9"

Indoor Personal Records:
Indoor Pentathlon - 3690
High Jump - 5'8"
60m hurdles - 9.06

Before Brown: Natasha competed at NSIC indoorNationals as a junior in the high jump where she placed 6th earningHigh School All American status ... She returned to the NSICs as asenior in the pentathlon to place 2nd nationally, and was againnamed High School All American ... Her best High School marksincluded 3493 points in the pentathlon, 5'6.75 in the high jump and9.22 in the 60m hurdles.

Personal: Daughter of Stephen Smith andSusan Slowick ... Has an older brother, Gabe, and a younger sister,Elisa ... Concentrating in Environmental Studies