BIO:
Height: 6-4
Position: F
Years Pro: 4
College/From: Stanford/Australia
Drafted: Phoenix Mercury (No. 8 overall in 2019)

2023 SEASON OVERVIEW: After playing in just nine games last season with the Indiana Fever before being cut in 2022. Smith signed with the Sky in February 2023, eventually earning a starting role, and having the best season of her career. 

Smith averaged career highs across the board, including 9.2 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.3 blocks. The 6-foot-4 forward secured more points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks this season than any of her other four seasons combined, despite playing in nearly half the amount of games. 

She finished third in voting for the league’s Most Improved Player award and helped anchor the Sky on the defensive end of the floor. Smith, along with Elizabeth Williams, were among only three players in the league to average over 1.0 steals and 1.0 blocks in under 30.0 minutes per game. 

Smith led the Sky in rebounds and finished second on the team in blocks and steals. She joined Williams this year as two of just three players to record 40+ steals and 40+ blocks in the same season, joining Sylvia Fowles (2011). 

Smith did not miss from the floor during her Chicago debut, going 5 for 5 for a then-career high 15 points, two steals and three blocks. She was named a starter for the first time with the Sky on May 28, posting 14 points and a then-career high 12 rebounds and career-high six assists.

She snapped her career high for scoring again on June 2 against the New York Liberty with 18 points and then again on June 9 against the Los Angeles Sparks with 19 points. In that same game, she also posted a career-high five blocks, which was the most blocks in a single game by any one player at that point in the season across the league.

On July 22, Smith had one of the most impressive games of her career, posting a career-high 17 rebounds, snapping her previous career high of 13 by grabbing 14 boards in her first 16 minutes of play. She is the fourth player in Sky history to record at least 17 rebounds in a game and had the most rebounds in a game in the WNBA at that point in time. She also tied her career high for steals in a game with four, which she had set in the previous game.

Smith also set her career high in scoring on August 4, posting 20 points in a win over Dallas. Overall Smith recorded more points, assists, steals, rebounds and blocks this year than she had in her first four seasons in the league combined. 

2023 SEASON MILESTONES:

• June 2 — Became the fourth player in WNBA history to make at least seven shots from the floor, four of them being threes, and finishing perfect from the floor, first to do so since 2005
• June 6 — Became the second player in WNBA history to score 18+ points on 75% shooting or better from the field with 5+ rebounds, 5+ assists, 2+ steals and 2+ blocks in a single game
• June 15 — Reached 50 career blocks
• July 12 — Reached 200 career defensive rebounds
• July 20 — Reached 50 career steals
• July 22 — Became the third player in WNBA history to finish a game with 17+ rebounds, 4+ steals, 3+ blocks, joining Sylvia Fowles and Candace Parker
• July 22 — Her 14 rebounds in the first half were the most by any one player in a game this season and are tied for the third-most in a half all time
• August 18 — Reached 100 career offensive rebounds (8/18)
• August 22 — Passed Epiphanny Prince (48) for 15th on the Sky’s all-time blocks list with 49 blocks
• August 24 — Reached 50 career made three-pointers