THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA LIONS

UNA 2020: Earned second-team All-Big South Conference honors in 2020...Selected Big South Conference Football Male Scholar Athlete of the Year for a second straight season and was a candidate for the Doris Robinson National FCS Scholar Athlete of the Year...CoSIDA Academic All-District for a second straight year…Finished fourth on the team in tackles with 20 total, including 12 solos and eight assists...One tackle for loss of 14 yards and one interception for 13 yards...Broke-up two passes...His interception came in the fourth quarter against Liberty, which he returned to the Flames 12-yard line to set up UNA's only touchdown in the game...UNA 2019: Earned Academic All-Big South Conference honors in 2019 and was the league's Scholar Athlete of the Year and a finalist for the Doris Robinson National FCS Scholar Athlete of the Year....Selected first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America®...One of just 25 student-athletes selected from more than 25,000 competing in Division I football (FBS & FCS) for first-team Academic-All America®...Became UNA's first Division I Academic All-America® selection in any sport since the Lions began their transition in 2018...An Interdisciplinary Studies major with an emphasis in Health, Smith has a perfect 4.00 GPA and was also selected CoSIDA Academic All-District...Started all season for the Lions in the secondary...Finished fifth on the team in tackles with 54 total, 32 solos and 22 assists...1.5 tackles for loss of one yard...Two interceptions for 10 yards and eight pass break-ups...Forced one fumble...UNA 2018: Played in all 10 games with eight starts in the secondary in 2018...Finished third on the team in tackles with 49 total (30 solo, 19 assists)...Three tackles for loss of six yards, three interceptions that he returned 79 yards and five pass break-ups...Picked off a pass in the fourth quarter against Alabama A&M and returned it 48 yards before being stopped with one second left in the game to preserve a 25-20 UNA win...Picked off two passes against Azusa Pacific and returned them for a combined 31 yards...Had 10 tackles in season opener against Southern Utah...COLLEGE: Transferred to UNA from the University of Georgia where he was a member of the scout team in 2016...HIGH SCHOOL: Played at High School under coach Erik Solidan ... Missed his senior season due to illness ... All-county and All-area honors as a junior ... Scored over 1,000 points in his basketball career and was named Region 2-AAAA Player of the Year ... Member of Beta Club and National Honor Society ... On the All-A Honor Roll each year of high school...PERSONAL: Full name is Kirkland Smith, Jr...A graduate student at UNA working toward a Master of Science in Health and Human Performance degree, with a concentration in Exercise Science...Smith has a perfect 4.0 grade point average on the graduate level. He previously graduated with a 4.0 GPA while earning a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, with an emphasis on Health.
 
Year      UT        AT        TT        INT-YDS           PBU
2018     30         19        49         3-79                   5
2019     32         22        54         2-10                   8
2020     12           8        20         1-13                   2
Career  74         49        123       6-102               15