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The 2017 NAIA Football Season started on September 2, 2017 and ended on December 16, 2017. The season consisted of 91 teams competing for the Tom Osborne trophy. The 2017 NAIA Football national Championship game saw the Saint Francis Cougars defeat the Reinhardt Eagles by a score of 24-13. This completed the Cougars 8th undefeated season.

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Early Life
Ben smith was raised in Chesapeake, VA along with his two brothers, Alec and Dane. Growing up Ben and his brothers were a very athletic children and they were always involved in sports throughout the seasons. In middle school Ben played football, baseball, basketball, and ran track. He was a talented baseball player for the Great Bridge high school Wildcats from 2004 to 2008. He played collegiate level baseball at Lafayette College before transferring close to home at Old Dominion University, where he got his Mechanical engineering degree. His military father introduced him to crossfit in 2006 when he was sixteeen. He began doing cross-fit exercises in the Smith home. He would do the exercises posted on crossfit.com before the sport was very popular. After he stopped playing baseball is when he began taking cross-fit seriously.

Professional Career
Ben Smith has been a competitor in the Reebok CrossFit Games ten times in a row since his debut in 2009. At the 2009 Mid Atlantic Qualifiers Ben Smith placed 1st. He then went on to compete in the 2009 CrossFit Games where he finished in 64th place. In 2010 Ben Smith took 2nd place at the Central East Regionals. That year at the CrossFit Games Smith finished in 8th place. In 2011 He completed the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 16th place and a Mid Atlantic ranking of 4th place. After the open he moved on to the Mid Atlantic Regionals where he took 1st place. That year at the CrossFit Games Ben Smith Finished in 3rd place behind Joshua Bridges 2nd place, and Rich Froning 1st place. In 2012, He finished the CrossFit Open in 24th place. Ben Smith took 1st place again that year at the Mid Atlantic Regionals and went on to finish in 11th place at the CrossFit Games. The following year, 2013, he placed 11th in the worldwide CrossFit Open rankings. Again, at the Mid Atlantic Regionals in 2013, Ben Smith took 1st place. At the 2013 CrossFit Games Ben Smith Finished in 3rd place, this time behind Jason Khalipa 2nd place, and Rich Froning 1st place. In 2014, he finished the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 3rd place, and then at the Mid Atlantic Regionals he took 1st place for the fourth year in a row. At the CrossFit Games that year Ben Smith finished in 7th place. In 2015 he ranked 3rd in the worldwide CrossFit Open and then he placed 4th at the Atlantic Regionals. Then, at the 2015 CrossFit Games Ben Smith took 1st place, beating out Mathew Fraser and Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson, and claiming the title of Fittest Man on Earth. In 2016, Ben Smith completed the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 65th place. He then moved on to the Atlantic Regionals where he placed 1st. At the CrossFit Games Ben finished in 2nd place, right behind Mathew Fraser. In 2017 Ben Smith completed the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 41st and then he went on to finish 3rd at the Atlantic Regionals. At the 2017 CrossFit Games Ben finished in 8th place. The next year, 2018, Ben finished the CrossFit Open with a worldwide ranking of 40th place and then he placed 3rd at the Atlantic Regionals for the second year in a row. At the 2018 CrossFit Games Ben Smith finished in 12th place.

Personal life
Smith owns a family run gym in Chesapeake, VA named Crossfit Krypton. He and his brothers, who are also competitive cross-fit competitors, are coaches there. Their father, Greg smith, is also a cross-fit athlete and can deadlift up to 600lbs. He's called the cross-fit gym as his second home because it is a place where him and his closest friends can work out, relax, and hang out. Ben met his wife, Noelle, in their junior year of high school while attending their chemistry class. They were married in October of 2014. After winning the 2015 cross-fit games, Smith took his 275,000 purse and bought a home for him and his wife. By 2017 Smith had made $487,086 in prize money making him the 5th highest paid crossfit athlete. In Feburary 2017, Smith's Crossfit Krypton raised $41,000 for St. Judes Children's Research Hospital from a charity competition. Smith's personal philosophy according to his gyms website is "through hard work and dedication anything is possible." In his free time he usually relaxes with friends and family, which helps keep his stressors relatively low. According to Ben, his low stress levels help him compete at a higher level and focus completely on becoming a better cross-fit athlete.