Tamara Hageage
tamara.hageage@ewu.edu

509-359-6045

Tamara B. Hageage is in her 10th year as the assistant women's soccer coach at Eastern Washington University; her primary responsibilities lie with the goalkeepers.

Hageage has more than 20 years of coaching experience at the youth and high school levels and has served as a staff and goalkeeping coach for the Ohio-North Olympic Development Program. In addition, she spent three seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Toledo from 1995-97.

She has her Goalkeeping Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) and has also earned an advanced national coaching license from the NSCAA.

Hageage's first book, Effective Soccer Goalkeeping for Women, was published in 2002. In 2003, she released two goalkeeping videos, Effective Goalkeeping for Women - Volumes 1 and 2. Her second book, 50 Complete Goalkeeping Training Sessions, was released in 2006.

During the summer of 2005, Hageage was the Athletic Director for Sports Ambassadors and led 600 players and 37 coaches at the Haarlem Cup in the Netherlands.

Prior to entering the coaching ranks, Hageage had an extensive playing career spanning 21 years at all levels, including the national, international and professional ranks.

She spent her freshman year at Colorado College, where she helped the Tigers to the 1990 NCAA Division I College Cup semifinals.

Hageage then transferred to the University of Washington to partake in the inaugural season of that program's history, playing there from 1991-93.

Sixteen years after her departure from the program, she still ranks highly in the UW record book.

In the career listings, she sits third in goals against average (1.21) and fourth in both saves (189) and shutouts (15).

For a single season, Hageage still holds the school mark for saves in a season with 106 in 1991 and is second in shutouts in a campaign with eight that season. Her best goals against average of 0.96 came in 1992 and places her fourth on that all-time list.

Hageage also holds the record for most saves in a single game with 14 against Michigan State on Sept. 23, 1992.

She was UW's Defensive MVP and earned the school's Best Defensive Play award in 1991.

Prior to her collegiate playing days, Hageage had an outstanding career at Woodward High School in Toledo, Ohio, and, in April 2009, became the youngest female and second-youngest overall member of its Hall of Fame.

Following her career at Washington, she went on to play professionally in Denmark, Canada, Russia and semi-pro in the U.S. While at Fortuna in Denmark, she won team Player of the Year honors in 1998.

She has also volunteered her time with TOPSoccer the past four years and, in 2009, was nominated for TOPSoccer "Buddy of the Year," indicating that Hageage is extremely committed to making TOPSoccer a special, memorable experience for kids with disabilities.

Hageage has a bachelor's degree in German language and literature (UW, 1994) and a master's in English as a second language (Toledo, 1996).