Adrienne Smith

Adrienne Smith is a star wide receiver with the Boston Renegades, with a mission to create more opportunities in football and professional sports for women and girls. Smith has been featured on "TODAY," in Forbes and in an iconic ad campaign for the milk industry's Team Milk! The Patriots have said of Smith, "She cannot be stopped," and the Times Union has called her "the face of women in football."

As one of the best-performing wide receivers in women's football history, Smith has won two gold medals and national championships throughout her women's tackle football career. Smith and her teams have been winners of national championships in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. In addition to her role with the Renegades, Smith has been a member of the U.S. women's national flag football team, winning three silver medals in international competitions.

An entrepreneur and an MBA graduate of Columbia Business School, Smith is the co-founder of Harlem Hip-Hop Tours, a company dedicated to edutainment field trips for schools and youth groups, and Gridiron Queendom, an enterprise dedicated to women and girls around the world who play or are fans of American football. She is also the creator of the award-winning football card game Blitz Champz, officially licensed by the National Football League.

Smith is a multi-hyphenate writer, actress and producer with experience that ranges from producing and hosting a television show in Japan to developing film and television properties for the U.S. market and appearing on "Orange Is the New Black."