Eastern Washington University Athletics

Smithpeters compiled a 290-227 record in 18 seasons as Eastern's women's basketball coach from 1977-1994. He helped Eastern emerge as a success story in the AIAW, followed by NCAA affiliation through the Mountain West and Big Sky conferences. His teams won 20 or more games six times, and were conference runners-up three times during the regular season and three more times in the post-season. In all, his teams reached the conference post-season tournament six out of a possible 12 years. Eastern won the 1987 Big Sky Conference Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship. In his second season as head coach in 1977-78,  Eastern advanced to the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) National Tournament and finished 24-9 overall. Three victories in the Region IX Tournament helped Eastern advance, including a 56-45 victory over Seattle University in the championship game. Eastern held its three opponents to an average of 41.3 points per game as Jae Jae Jackson was selected to the All-Tournament team. Three of the players he coached have been inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame -- Brenda Souther-Robinson (1998), Maria Loos-Lefler (1999) and Lisa Comstock-Schultz (2003).