{"id":7010,"date":"2025-03-31T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=7010"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:10:14","slug":"rob-smart","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/people\/rob-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Rob Smart&nbsp;has been a member of the coaching staff with the Ravens since the 2004-05 season, where he has helped lead the team to thirteen U SPORTS national championships, including ten&nbsp;as an assistant coach (2005-2007, 2009, 2011-2015, 2017, 2019, 2021), and an eleventh&nbsp;title as interim head coach (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 3, 2015, Rob Smart was named the interim head coach of the Carleton Ravens men&#8217;s basketball team. Smart guided the Ravens to a 17-3 regular season record in 2015-16, and a 2-1 OUA playoff record. The men&#8217;s basketball team automatically advanced to the CIS Final 8 at UBC in Vancouver, BC, where Smart guided the No. 2-seeded Ravens to a perfect 3-0 record at nationals, earning Carleton its sixth consecutive national title and twelfth national title overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his outstanding work as interim head coach, Rob Smart was the recipient of the 2015-16 Pat O&#8217;Brien Award as Coach of the Year at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his time as a CIS player at Carleton, Smart&nbsp;was named a CIS Second Team All-Canadian in 2001, a Third Team All-Canadian in 2002, and a First Team All-Canadian in 2003,&nbsp;in addition to being chosen an OUA First Team All-Star in all three of those years (2001-2003). Smart, who played guard during his university career, was also named OUA East Player of the Year in 2001. In his final season as a player in 2002-03, he was a key member&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Ravens men&#8217;s basketball team that won the school&#8217;s first CIS national basketball championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart is a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/directory\/smart-rob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">faculty member<\/a>&nbsp;at Carleton&#8217;s Sprott School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Management (Carleton University) and a Masters of Business Administration (Carleton University).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7011,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Rob","cu_people_last_name":"Smart","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[26,139],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-7010","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-instructors","cu_people_type-sports-leadership-program"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor & Assistant Coach","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7014,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/7010\/revisions\/7014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/future-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}