Cortlynn Smith - Football Coach - Troy University Athletics

Cortlynn Smith

Title:
Director of On-Campus Recruiting / Operations Assistant
Email:
jmorgan@troy.edu
Phone:
3682

Cortlynn Smith begins her second season as the Trojans' new director of on-campus recruiting and operations assistant. Smith joins the Troy staff following one year at Liberty and two years at Ole Miss working in their recruiting departments.

In 2022, the Trojans finished the season ranked in a major poll for the first time in program history, checking in at No. 19 in the AP Top 25 and No. 20 in the USA Today/Coaches Poll. Additionally, Troy's appearance in the Coaches Poll and College Football Playoff Poll after its Sun Belt Championship Game victory were also firsts for the program.

Troy hosted and appeared in the Sun Belt Championship Game for the first time, reached the 12-win mark at the FBS level for the first time and hosted Army in front of a Veterans Memorial Stadium record crowd of more than 31,000 fans.

Smith rejoined the Liberty staff in the spring of 2021 as a graduate assistant for the Flames. She worked as a liaison between the Liberty coaches and recruits by scheduling visits and ensuring the staff stayed in compliance with NCAA rules. She briefly served as a recruiting intern at Liberty in the spring of 2019 before joining the staff at Ole Miss.

She spent her first 21 months in Oxford working as an intern in the marketing and fan experience department for the Rebels before moving to the football offices. As an intern in the football recruiting office for the 2019 and 2020 seasons, Smith helped OIe Miss sign two of the top classes in the country, including the nation's number 17 class in 2021.

Smith earned her undergraduate degree in integrated marketing communications from Ole Miss in 2021 and followed with her master's degree in sports administration from Liberty in 2022. Her and her husband, Heskin, were married during the summer of 2023.