Smith College Athletics

Weight Room

Smith athletics has a recently renovated varsity weight room separate from the Olin Center. The varsity weight room's main features include:

• 8 Rogue Monster Lite - 3 Power Racks
• Rogue Bumper Plates and Change Plates in Kilograms
• 16 Rogue Bella Bars
• 4 Sets of Rogue Foam Plyo Boxes
• 8 Trap Bars
• 8 Sets of 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24kg Rogue Kettlebells
• Rogue Sandbags
• Rogue and Perform Better Medicine Balls

Indoor Track and Tennis (ITT) Facility

Smith College has a full size 200m indoor track and tennis facility. The strength and conditioning department has access to this facility for testing and/or training purposes.

• Full 200m indoor track
• 4 full tennis courts

Ainsworth and Scott Gymnasiums

Both Ainsworth and Scott Gymnasiums are at the disposal of the strength and conditioning department for testing/and or training purposes. Equipment can be most easily taken from the weight room to Scott Gym in need be but through planning and teamwork with other Smith Athletics coaches, both gyms can be used for many purposes.

Athletics Fields

Smith Athletics has Outdoor Soccer, Field Hockey/Lacrosse, and Softball fields as well as a full outdoor track and field facility with an additional infield. Smith Strength and Conditioning keeps equipment out near the fields for use on and around the fields for any of our varsity sports teams. The equipment stored outside include:

• 6 sets pf 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24kg Rogue Kettlebells
• 6 Rogue Dog Sleds
• 10 Rogue Medicine Balls
• 2 Sets of Rogue Farmers Carry Handles
• Rogue Sandbags

Technology

At Smith College, we have the luxury of having some of the most cutting edge technology in performance training. We use an online platform called Teambuildr to administer and distribute training programs to our student athletes. This platform also has an app where athletes can access their training at any point and anywhere. The platform is complete with technique videos, training tracking, and messaging functions to communicate with coaches. 

We also currently use First Beat heart rate monitoring technology that can track a team of athlete's heart rate in real time. This benefit not only allows us to see how each individual is responding to training but it will give us a "Training Load" for a session. A Training Load is a numeric value of how taxing a lift, conditioning session, practice, or game was to an individual athlete on a physiological level. With this information, we can make key decisions on how to adapt training to an athlete or team's cumulative fatigue level or physiological needs.

In addition, we have Tendo Units, a bar velocity tracking piece of technology, and OVR velocity Units at our disposal. Knowing the velocity of a movement can be crucial to adapting to an athlete on any individual day depending on their fatigue state on any given day or training goal.