Smith Athletics Hall of Fame
Smith’s fourth national champion was also Smith’s first Olympian - Gwyn Hardesty-Coogan ‘87 captured the NCAA Championship in the 3000 meter run in 1986. It was the second consecutive year that Hardesty-Coogan had won the event, but the first time winning it for Smith, after spending a year as an exchange student at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. At Smith, her name is all over the record books, where she holds the indoor and outdoor marks in the 1,500 and 3,000 meters, as well as the indoor mark in the 1-mile. Post-graduation, she trained for and competed in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, where she finished 13th in the 10,000 meter race. She also was an alternate for the women’s marathon in the 1996 Games in Atlanta, Ga.
