Matt Goldsmith is vacationing in Wyoming with his family and doing a little mountain climbing.<\/p>\n
Goldsmith took The College of New Jersey basketball program to some new heights during his 10 years before stepping away this spring to take the head job at Middlebury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m eternally grateful for TCNJ for giving me the opportunity,\u2019\u2019 said Goldsmith. \u201cWhen I came to TCNJ as a kid in a lot of ways, I was 29 years old and wasn\u2019t married and I grew up in the athletics department here at TCNJ and the players grew up with me and I learned a ton from my first year to my 10th.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
They won at lot, too.<\/p>\n
Goldsmith was 153-98 over his time in Ewing, made the NJAC playoffs every year and won two conference titles in 2019-20 and 2023-24. The league championship was the first for TCNJ since the 1997-98 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey put their faith in me and always be grateful to the athletic department and all my players, my staff over the\u00a0 years,\u2019\u2019 said Goldsmith. \u201cI\u2019ve been lucky to be around great people and people make programs and we\u2019ve been lucky to have great people inside our basketball program.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
It has been a great run for Goldsmith, who played at Delbarton and then at Amherst before taking the TCNJ job.<\/p>\n
\u201cExtremely proud, what we did had not been accomplished at TCNJ in a really long time,\u2019\u2019 said Goldsmith. \u201cWe went to the semifinals of NJAC in eight of our 10 years. We were always in the mix no matter who graduated or who was retuning, we always figured it out and I\u2019m super happy with that consistency.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He\u2019s taking over a very consistent program at Middlebury, which has been to the NCAA\u2019s in 12 of the last 14 years under 28-year coach Jeff Brown, who retired after this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that attracted me to TCNJ was the overall success of the athletic programs and when you see that as a coach it\u2019s exciting because it shows there\u2019s a formula to do that at a high level,\u2019\u2019 said Goldsmith. \u201cWhen you look at Middlebury its that same thing but on steroids. They win national titles at almost every sport and they always are competing doe NESCAC titles.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Playing at Amherst, Goldsmith is very familiar with the caliber of education and athletics in the NESCAC.<\/p>\n
\u201cNCAA\u2019s in 12 of 14 years and a run like that doesn\u2019t happen by accident it takes a lot of people outside as well as inside the basketball program to make that happen,\u2019\u2019 said Goldsmith of Middlebury\u2019s prowess. \u201cThe overall success and the level they have been able to compete at is amazing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
This was more than just a basketball decision it is also a family matter as Goldsmith knows Vermont will be a great place to raise as family as he and his wife Laura now have three children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think long term it was the best decision for our family and that\u2019s what it came down to,\u2019\u2019 said Goldsmith. \u201cI love TCNJ and I loved working there and I love our guys, but I think this is an opportunity we just couldn\u2019t pass up and we are thinking about the three little ones. We\u2019re excited to get up there.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
After climbing mountains in Wyoming and at TCNJ, Goldsmith will now be looking to keep the Panthers on top of the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Goldsmith is vacationing in Wyoming with his family and doing a little mountain climbing. Goldsmith took The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1369,43359,1317,1337,1338,401,62,32064,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-59679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-sports","10":"tag-mercer-county","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-new-jersey","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-top-stories-trt","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114840522154610982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}