Smith won a silver medal in the coxless pair event with Betty Craig at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

[6] In September 2013 she was elected to succeed Anita DeFrantz as Vice-President of FISA, the International Rowing Federation.

[7] Smith was elected a vice president of the Canadian Olympic Committee in 2009.

She was subsequently elected president at the COC Session in November 2015,[8] and in June 2016 was nominated for membership of the International Olympic Committee.

Smith is also a member of the Board of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport,[citation needed] the organization that runs the Court of Arbitration for Sport, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.