Wake Forest Athletics
Spring 2026 Men's Soccer Roster
Travis Smith Jr.
- Height:
- 6-1
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Louisville, Ky.
- High School:
- duPont Manual
Career Stats
Career Honors
- 3x Academic All-ACC (2023, 2024, 2025)
- 2025 Preseason TopDrawerSoccer Best XI - Second Team
- 2025 Preseason TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players - #32
- 2025 Midseason TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players - #88
- 2023-24 ACC Academic Honor Roll
2025 (Junior)
One of four outfield players to have started all 17 matches for the Demon Deacons… Landed on TopDrawerSoccer’s preseason Best XI second team… Earned spots on TopDrawerSoccer’s preseason and midseason Top 100 players list… Secured a spot on the All-ACC Academic Team for the third-consecutive season… Went the full 90 on 10 separate occasions… Led all outfield players with a total of 1,400 minutes on the pitch… Contributed to six clean sheets… Helped limit opponents to three-or-fewer shots on-goal in seven different matches, including the 3-0 clean sheet victory in the regular season finale against Notre Dame (10/31).
2024 (Sophomore)
Appeared in 22 matches with 21 starts, playing numerous positions on the Deacs’ backline … Recorded 1,718 minutes of action … Played 90 or minutes nine times … Contributed to six Demon Deacon clean sheets … Scored his first-career goal, the game-winning strike in Wake Forest’s 2-1 victory over Syracuse (Nov. 6) in the first round of the ACC Tournament … Added an assist in the team’s 4-1 victory over UNCW (Oct. 15).
2023 (Freshman)
Appeared in 11 matches with six starts during the 2023 season, logging 534 minutes of action … Started and played the entire 90 minutes in his collegiate debut, as the Demon Deacons defeated Grand Canyon 3-1 on Aug. 24 … Helped guide the Deacs in a clean sheet 0-0 draw at No. 20 Maryland on Sept. 1 … Started his first-ever ACC regular season match at Pitt on Sept. 9 … Started and played the entire 90 minutes in a 5-1 victory over Robert Morris on Oct. 17.
Background
Played in the 2022 High School All-American Game, representing duPont Manual High School… 2022 and 2023 ECNL All-American … Attended the 2019 U.S. Youth National Team Identification Center while at FC Cincinnati…Spent the 2022 and 203 offseasons with USL Championship’s Louisville City … Signed an Academy Contract with the club in 2023 and spent time with the first team … Chose Wake Forest over Brown, Kentucky, Penn State, Penn and Saint Louis … Rated a three-star prospect by TopDrawerSoccer … Ranks as the No. 12 player from the Great Lakes Region in the Class of 2023 … Was named the 2022-23 Gatorade Kentucky Player of the Year.
Son of Dr. Felicia Smith and Travis Smith Sr. … Has a sister, Jasmine, and a brother, Austyn … Born Aug. 26, 2005.
