Lamont Smith (Basketball) Bio, Family, Wife, Net Worth, Measurements

Lamont Smith is a former American college basketball coach. He also played basketball during his college years with the San Diego Toreros from 1995 to 1999. After graduating, he began his career as a coach. He was best known as an assistant coach at the University of Texas at El Paso for UTEP and head coach for the University of San Diego.

Smith was further charged with several allegations, including his arrest for domestic violence on February 25, 2018. The allegations were made by an unidentified woman who had a physical relationship with him. Moreover, for which he had to resign as head coach of San Diego Toreros after hours of being released on bail.

LAMONT SMITH: BIOGRAPHY, FAMILY, CAREER

The player was born on October 19, 1975 in The Colony, Texas. He has not revealed any information about his parents or siblings to the media. Regarding his education, he graduated from the University of San Diego in 1998. From the university, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in communication. From 1995 to 1999, Smith played for the San Diego Toreros and also earned Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1997 and 1999.

The player began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Saint Louis and then Saint Mary (2001-07). For one season, he joined as an assistant at Santa Clara University, then left to take an assistant position at Arizona State. In 2012, he became an assistant coach at the University of Washington where he spent a season on the bench. He then served as an assistant coach at the University of New Mexico in 2015.

He left to join the San Diego Toreros as head coach in 2015 following the departure of Bill Grier. This turned out to be his successful tenure in his career, however, he had coached the last game with Toreros in February 2018. After that, he became an assistant for the 2018-19 UTEP Miners basketball team. Additionally, he started his own basketball academy under his name and created a YouTube channel on it.

Legal issue:

Additionally, he had a legal problem when he was placed on administrative leave by San Diego in February 2018 after being arrested at Oakland International Airport. In addition, the police arrested him for domestic violence, forceful assault likely to cause serious bodily harm, and wrongful imprisonment are all examples of domestic violence. Following this, he resigned from the team after coaching for three seasons.

Additionally, he was released after posting $115,000 bond. Additionally, Smith resigned from UTEP on March 20, 2019, after the University of San Diego announced he was suspected of receiving payment in connection with the college admissions bribery scandal. in 2019 for allegedly illegally assisting the children of a Beverly Hills real estate mogul. .

LAMONT SMITH: PERSONAL LIFE AND WIFE

Talking about his love life, he is not single, in fact, he was married to a beautiful woman named Kimberly Smith. She is recognized as an American businesswoman involved in the beauty and fashion line. Together, the couple had welcomed two daughters: Olivia and Payton Smith.

LAMONT SMITH: NET WORTH AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

After graduating until 2019, he served as an assistant coach as well as a head coach, primarily for college basketball. He had his greatest successes with the University of San Diego team. Hence, he has an estimated net worth of around $1 million. However, there is no specific information about his income or salary.

It looks like he doesn’t have any accounts under his name, but we can see accounts under his basketball academy. There is an unverified Instagram account under the name of his basketball academy with over 1.3k followers. On Twitter, his basketball academy goes by the unverified account @CoachMontySmith with over 4.3k followers.

LAMONT SMITH: BODY MEASUREMENTS

The former head coach has an athletic body structure that stands at a height of around 6 feet or 1.82 meters. No information on his body weight or chest, waist or bicep measurements. He has a bald head with dark brown eyes.