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Robert Smart (born 1978) is a Canadian basketball coach and former professional player. As an interim head coach, he guided the Carleton Ravens to the 2016 U Sports national championship. He is the nephew of Dave Smart and cousins with Aaron Doornekamp and Ben Doornekamp. [1]

Basketball Team sport

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.

Carleton Ravens

The Carleton Ravens are the athletic teams that represent Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The most notable sports team for Carleton is the men's basketball team. In men's basketball, the Ravens have won 14 of the last 17 national men's championships, more than any top division college in Canada or the United States. The Ravens went on an 87-game winning streak from 2003 to 2006. They also had a 54-game home winning streak. The Ravens finished 2nd in the World University Basketball Championships in 2004.

U Sports Governing body of university sport in Canada

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Career

Growing up in Napanee, Ontario, Smart played basketball at Ernestown Secondary School, before enrolling at Simon Fraser University of the NAIA where he played from 1997 to 1999 before transferring to Carleton. [2] He won the CIS National Championship with the Ravens in 2003, while earning First Team All-Canadian honours. [3] He was a member of Team Canada at the 2003 World University Games in South Korea [4] and played professionally for BBC Bayreuth in the German 2. Bundesliga in parts of the 2003-04 season. [5] After returning to Canada, Smart pursued a PhD degree in management at Carleton University. His doctoral thesis was on "A Longitudinal Case Study of a Public-Sector Change Team". [1]

Ernestown Secondary School Secondary school in Odessa, Ontario, Canada

Ernestown Secondary School or ESS is a Canadian public, comprehensive school located in Odessa, Ontario, Canada. The school services about 650 students from Loyalist Township, Napanee and Stone Mills, Ontario. The town is in the eastern Ontario county of Lennox and Addington approximately 24 kilometers west of the city of Kingston, Ontario. The school offers classes for students in grades nine through twelve and is a member school of the Limestone District School Board. The school motto at ESS is Amor Doctrinae Floreat - "Let the Love of Learning Flourish"

Simon Fraser University Public research university in British Columbia, Canada

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National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics North American college athletics association

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is a college athletics association for small colleges and universities in North America. For the 2018–2019 season, it has 251 member institutions, of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the conterminous United States. The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsors 26 national championships. The CBS Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media outlet for the NAIA. In 2014, ESPNU began carrying the NAIA Football National Championship.

Smart joined the coaching staff of the Carleton Ravens men's basketball as an assistant to Dave Smart in 2004. [6] He won U Sports national championships as an assistant in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019. [6] In the 2015-16 season, he served as interim head coach, guiding the Ravens to another national title, [7] while being presented with the Pat O'Brien Award as Coach of the Year at Carleton. [8] He returned to the assistant coach position for the 2016-17 season. Besides his coaching duties, Smart is a faculty member at Carleton's Sprott School of Business. [9]

Sprott School of Business

The Sprott School of Business is a full-service business school at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – the nation’s capital. It is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the Network of International Business Schools (NIBS). The school explores complex management issues through its innovative programs, interdisciplinary research and collaborative partnerships. It was named in 2001 for Eric Sprott, a well-known philanthropist, alumnus of the school, and base-metals investor.

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  2. ↑ Beamish, ,Mike. "Carleton Ravens may have cause for concern at CIS basketball nationals". www.vancouversun.com. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  3. ↑ "U Sports Hoops - University Basketball in Canada". usportshoops.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  4. ↑ "MBB: Kaza Kajami-Keane, Connor Wood named to 2017 FISU Summer Universiade team". goravens.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  5. ↑ "Rob Smart Basketball Player Profile, medi Bayreuth, News, BBL stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  6. 1 2 "Ravens Basketball Men's Basketball Coach Profile Rob Smart". goravens.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  7. ↑ "Carleton Ravens win sixth straight national men's basketball title". Ottawa Sun. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  8. ↑ "Carleton Ravens – Major Awards Pat O'Brien Award – Ravens' Coach of the Year" (PDF). goravens.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  9. ↑ "Rob Smart - Sprott School of Business". Sprott School of Business. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
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