Smith attended Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, Washington and was an honor student and a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was a first team all-State selection as a junior and senior. Raonall Smith graduated from Peninsula High School in 1996. He was nicknamed "The Oven" on the baseball field, because he had a cannon from center field. Played select baseball for the Tacoma Stags and was an all-tournament selection at the NABF World Series in 1994 in Northville, Michigan.