Hired on July 30, 2020, Kevin Woodhull-Smith begins his second year as Head Men's and Women's Swimming Coach at Barton College in 2021-22.  In his first season, Woodhull-Smith led the Bulldogs' women's squad to the Conference Carolinas Championship and was named the league's coach of the year while the men's team finished runner-up.

Woodhull-Smith came to the Wilson, N.C., after serving the past eight seasons as an Assistant Men's and Women's Swimming Coach at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., starting in 2012-13.  Prior to the 2017-18 season, Woodhull-Smith was elevated to Head Assistant Coach for the NCAA Division I Pirates.

Woodhull-Smtih led the Pirates' men's team to four American Athletic Conference Championships - 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020 - to go along with eight league individual championship in a total of 22 events.  Woodhull-Smith also coached 28 swimmers to All-AAC honors while five swimmers qualified to the NCAA Division I National Championship.

Woodhull-Smith, a 2010 graduate of North Carolina State University with a bachelor's degree in accounting, lettered four seasons on the nationally-ranked Wolfpack squad and qualified for the Olympic Trails in June of 2008 in the 200-meter individual medley.  Woodhull-Smith also completed his master's degree from NCSU in parks, recreation and tourism management in 2012.  Woodhull-Smith was a graduate assistant for N.C. State for two years (2010-12) as well and served as an Assistant Coach for East Carolina Aquatics for eight seasons as well. 

Woodhull-Smith's wife, Britney, is Barton's Assistant Athletic Director of Compliance and Senior Woman Administrator.  The couple have three children:  Vincent (son), Drake and Harley (daughters).