BALTIMORE, MD – Fred Smith, one of the most beloved individuals in the history of the Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse program, will be inducted into the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA) Hall of Fame on Saturday, December 9 in a ceremony that will take place at the Omni Orlando Resort it was recently announced.  Smith becomes the fifth former Johns Hopkins head coach to be inducted in the IMLCA's Hall of Fame as he joins Bob Scott , Henry Ciccarone, Tony Seaman and Don Zimmerman.
 
In addition to Smith, three other individuals make up the IMLCA's 2023 Class of Inductees as he joins Bill Tierney, Jim Berkman and Hank Janczyk in the organization's ninth class.  Smith and Tierney were part of Zimmerman's Johns Hopkins staff from 1985-87.
 
Tickets for the ceremony may be purchased by visiting the IMLCA website.  Individual tickets are $125 apiece and tables of up to 10 may be reserved. 
 
Smith served as the Blue Jay head coach in 1951 and 1954 and spent the better part of the following 33 years as an assistant coach and mentor under the direction of Scott (1955-74), Ciccarone (1975-83) and Zimmerman (1984-87).  During that time, the Blue Jays won 13 national championships with six USILA titles and the first seven of the program's nine NCAA titles.
 
Smith's final in-person game with the Blue Jays came in the 1987 NCAA Semifinals, when Johns Hopkins upset top-ranked and top-seeded rival Maryland, 13-8, to advance to the national championship game, which they would win with an 11-10 victory over Cornell.  Three weeks later, he passed away.
 
Smith graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1950 after a playing career that saw him earn All-America honors four times and help the Blue Jays to four consecutive USILA National Championships.  Smith's famed class of 1950 went unbeaten against collegiate opponents over its four seasons with its only four losses coming against the Mount Washington Club team.  At the conclusion of his career, he was named to the All-Time Johns Hopkins Team.
 
This will be the third Hall of Fame that Smith is inducted into as he was previously inducted into the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1979 and was a charter member of the Johns Hopkins Athletics Hall of Fame when it added its first class in 1994.