Zach Smith
	Position: Wide Receivers Coach Experience: 1st Year Alma Mater: Florida, 2007

Hometown: Dublin, Ohio
High School: Dublin Coffman
Alma Mater: University of Florida, 2007
Year in Coaching: Eighth (First year at Ohio State)
Wife: Courtney
Children: Son Cameron

Zach Smith, who spent five seasons with Urban Meyer at the University of Florida coaching players like Percy Harvin, Aaron Hernandez and Louis Murphy, is in his first year as Ohio State's wide receivers coach.

The 2012 season will be Smith's third year of coaching in a fulltime capacity. He previously had been hired by former Meyer assistants-turned-head coaches Doc Holliday (Marshall) and Steve Addazio (Temple) as wide receivers and special teams coach.

"I know what a quality coach Zach is," Meyer said. "He knows my system inside and out and he teaches the system the way I want it to be taught."

Smith spent five years as a graduate assistant and quality control assistant for Meyer at Florida, during which time Florida won a pair of national championships while producing some of the best offensive and special teams units in the country. Smith was a special teams quality control coach for three years (2005-07) and an offensive graduate assistant for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. He assisted with coaching the UF wide receivers, quarterbacks and special teams during his time in Gainesville.

Smith left Florida to work on Holliday's staff at Marshall for the 2010 season. He then moved on to Temple when Steve Addazio took over this year.

Marshall's receivers totaled 152 catches for 1,824 yards and 16 touchdowns in 2010 and featured all-Conference USA performer Aaron Dobson. Temple's receivers managed 66 catches for 961 yards and eight touchdowns despite the Owls featuring the seventh-best rushing offense in the country and the top unit in the Mid-American Conference.

Additionally, Temple's special teams ranked first in the MAC in kickoff returns and second in net punting and punt returns. Those units also ranked fourth, 14th and 23rd nationally. Temple won nine games this past season, including its first bowl win (37-15 over Wyoming in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl) in 32 years.

Smith, who attended Dublin Coffman High School and who is a 2007 graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in sports management, and his wife Courtney have one son, Cameron (2), and an infant daughter, Quinn Olivia.

Zach Smith Coaching Experience