Xenia Smits

{{short description|German handball player (born 1994)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox handball biography

| name = Xenia Smits

| image = 2021-05-15 Handball Frauen, OLYMP Final4 2021, TuS Metzingen vs. SG BBM Bietigheim 1DX 3467 by Stepro.jpg

| nationality = Belgian
German

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1994|4|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wilrijk, Belgium

| height = 1.82 m

| position = Left back

| currentclub = HB Ludwigsburg

| clubnumber = 22

| youthyears1 = 2007–2008

| youthclubs1 = HC Rhino

| youthyears2 = 2008–2010

| youthclubs2 = HSG Bad Wildungen

| youthyears3 = 2010–2013

| youthclubs3 = HSG Blomberg-Lippe

| years1 = 2010–2015

| clubs1 = HSG Blomberg-Lippe

| years2 = 2015–2020

| clubs2 = Metz Handball

| years3 = 2020–2024

| clubs3 = SG BBM Bietigheim

| years4 = 2024-

| clubs4 = HB Ludwigsburg

| nationalyears1 = 2014–

| nationalteam1 = Germany

| nationalcaps1 = 129

| nationalgoals1 = 306

| ntupdate = 7. november 2024

}}

Xenia Smits (born 22 April 1994) is a Belgian-born German handball player for HB Ludwigsburg and the German national team.{{cite web|url=https://www.eurohandball.com/en/player/e4aTzrnjLIdNGwZCUY9XBg/xenia-smits/ |title=Profile|publisher=eurohandball.com|access-date=30 November 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dhb.de/de/data/spieler/a-nationalmannschaft-frauen/xenia-smits/|title=Profile|publisher=dhb.de|access-date=10 December 2014}}

At the age of 16 she debuted for Bundesliga team HSG Blomberg-Lippe, where she played until 2015. In this period she became a German citizen, and could thus play for the German national team.{{cite web | url=https://www.hsg-blomberg-lippe.de/2014/06/24/im-portrait-xenia-smits/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218010702/https://www.hsg-blomberg-lippe.de/2014/06/24/im-portrait-xenia-smits/ | archive-date=18 December 2018 | title=Im Portrait: Xenia Smits – HSG Blomberg-Lippe }}