Virginia Tech’s Dave Smith inducted into Virginia Sports Hall of Fame

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) – A former member of the Virginia Tech staff has received the honor of a lifetime.

Dave Smith, a longtime sports information director for Virginia Tech was formally inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. The ceremony was held on Saturday in Richmond.

He served the Hokie community for 40 years and helped promote some of the biggest accomplishments of the Tech athletics program. This includes overseeing media inquiries involving Frank Beamer and Michael Vick’s 1999 Heisman Trophy campaign.

Along with being a Virginia Tech alum, he also is a graduate of William Fleming High school.

Smith retired from his position as Tech’s Associate athletic director in 2015 and said that receiving the Hall of Fame nod is very special .

“It means a lot to me,” he begins. “It means a whole lot because I’m a Virginian. Any honor I I get here like that is an honor. I’ve never felt like I need to have honors, it’d be okay if I didn’t get any. But I’m proud that people think I did my jobs well enough to get one.”

Smith’s Virginia Sports Hall of Fame class includes Roanoke native and former Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Paul Woody; former Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage; Chris Long of UVa football; Monica Wright Rogers of UVa basketball; Olympic sprinter LaShawn Merritt; former U.S. women’s soccer coach Jill Ellis; Randolph-Macon men’s basketball coach Hal Nunnally; and former Special Olympics Virginia president Rick Jeffrey.

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