University of New England Athletics

Curt Smyth has been part of the UNE Athletics staff since 1997, and currently holds the position of Associate Director of Athletics for Communications & Operations (started in 2024-25). From January 2018 through May 2019, he served as the University's Director of Athletics, following a third stint as the Interim Director of Athletics. For 20 years, he filled the post of Sports Information Director, while serving in multiple coaching capacities over the first 10 years and then shifting into administration (Assistant AD, Associate AD, and Senior Associate AD).

Check out this June 2020 Spotlight on Smyth...

As the Head Women's Basketball Coach from 1997-2007, Smyth's teams won 142 games and captured the program's first Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship in 2001 to earn the program's first-ever bid to the NCAA tournament. Along the way, Smyth served on the NCAA Division III Northeast Regional Ranking Committee, and from 2012-16, he was a member of the NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee.

Smyth was also the Head Softball Coach in 1999 and coached the men's golf team from 2003-04.

Smyth was active in the sports information profession over the years, serving as publicity coordinator for the Commonwealth Coast Conference, Maine Athletic Conference, NAIA District 5, and Maine Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Prior to UNE, he was the Sports Information Director at his alma mater ('91) -- Saint Joseph's College of Maine [NCAA III] -- for five years. Smyth also coached the SJC softball squad to a 30-7 mark in 1997 and received the Maine Athletic Conference (MAC) Coach of the Year honor.

A native of Gorham, he and his wife, Julie, reside in Biddeford with their two children, Drew (a sophomore in college) and Anna (high school junior). He was inducted into the University of New England Varsity Club Athletics Hall of Fame in October 2017.

Previous Head Coaching:
University of New England Women's Basketball (1997-2007)
University of New England Men's Golf (2003-04)
University of New England Softball (1999)
Saint Joseph's College of Maine Softball (1997) / MAC Coach of the Year (1997)

(updated July 2025)