Lycoming College graduate Glenn Smith II '07 is set to begin his fourth year as the associate director of major gifts and director of athletics development in 2024-25. Smith has served as the college's lead athletics fundraiser since 2014.
Smith is in charge of overseeing the growth of the Warrior Club, including the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of alumni, parents and friends of the college. He also works to identify fundraising needs within the athletic department while developing strategies to raise support to meet such priorities.
In his first nine years, Smith has dramatically increased the number of donors to the Warrior Club, while also helping to find corporate sponsors for the athletics department, as those sponsorships paid off with the construction of a video board at the football stadium in 2016, a new inning-by-inning scoreboard at the softball field in 2018 and a new partnership that included naming rights to UPMC Field, the college's soccer and lacrosse field, in 2019.
He was integral in the fundraising campaign used to transform Keiper Stadium at UPMC Field into a premier facility for the soccer, field hockey and lacrosse teams, as well as securing funding to build a new collegiate-level baseball facility at Brandon Park in 2024.
Prior to Lycoming, Smith worked for three years as the Director of Strategic Philanthropy at the First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania. With the Foundation, Smith solicited annual, major and planned gifts to meet emerging needs within the community. He served as the lead manager and coordinator of Raise the Region, a 30-hour online fundraiser that raised over $1 million in 2014.
No stranger to Lycoming's advancement office, Smith spent three years as a Major Gift Officer from 2009-12. He raised annual, major and planned gifts for capital projects, special needs and endowments. He also spent two years as an admissions counselor at the college.
A three-year starting quarterback for the Lycoming football program, Smith was a co-captain of the 2006 squad and he was named the college's Most Outstanding Offensive Player in 2005 and 2006. He also was named the 2007 Lycoming College Most Outstanding Male Athlete and he is one of just 11 quarterbacks in school history to pass for more than 3,000 yards and complete 250 passes in a career. While at Lycoming, he was also a member of the college's choir. He was selected for inclusion in the Warrior Run Area High School Hall of Fame in 2019.
Smith serves in leadership roles with Play by Faith Ministries, Faith Wesleyan Church and Hope Enterprises. He has covered high school football as an analyst with WGRC radio in Lewisburg for the past 11 seasons and he also has provided analyst coverage of the Warriors.
A native of Watsontown, Pa., Smith earned a bachelor's of arts degree in business administration from Lycoming College in 2007 and a master's of business administration degree from Liberty University in 2013. He resides in Montoursville with his wife, Megan '07, and their three children, Jackson, Carley and Glenn.
