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The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

313. Keegan Smith: The Save & the Setback

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Sports

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Razorback goalkeeper Keegan Smith has faced it all — from celebrating an SEC Championship to battling one of the rarest injuries in sports. In this conversation with Hogs+ host Tera Talmadge, Keegan opens up about her small-town New York roots, the family ties that led her to Arkansas, and the powerful influence of her sister and her mom's longtime friendship with Razorback legend Amber Shirey. She also shares what it's been like to sit on the sidelines, support her teammates, and rediscover her love for the game.

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0:00.0

To know that like everyone just kept playing and like we lost key players, like key players,

0:08.5

but to have people step up, that's not a thing a lot of people can do in this.

0:13.1

Like for like women's soccer, like that's a hard thing to ask.

0:16.2

Like to play a position you haven't played before because we lost two of our defensive mid.

0:21.6

So we had to ask people to come play defensive mid who have never played defensive mid before

0:25.6

and they did it.

0:26.6

And they did it literally so well, good enough to win an SEC regular season championship.

0:32.1

I mean, it's just to like know that everyone has your back and everybody has each other's back on this team.

0:39.4

Like it says a lot about this program.

0:54.4

Welcome into the hog pot.

1:00.5

I'm Bo Mattingly, and this episode is made possible by our friends at South by Northwest Hospitality.

1:12.7

For Arkansas goalkeeper, Kegan Smith, this season has been full of highs. A one-handed stab saved by Kegan Smith.

1:18.2

And Lowe's.

1:19.7

From fighting through a rare injury.

1:22.2

It's actually like one of the rarest muscles you can like tear in your body.

1:25.7

There is like only case studies about it.

1:28.2

To an SEC title run.

1:30.4

We were so hungry this year.

1:32.2

Everybody was, like, so nervous going into the game because it's, I mean, it's senior night.

1:36.2

And then to, like, literally, like, do it and do it our way.

1:40.4

It was awesome.

1:41.6

Her journey to Fayetteville started far from here in small town New York with deep family

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