Player Bio: Tamara Hageage :: Women's Soccer -
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Published on: 1/9/2009
Last Visited: 1/9/2009
Tamara Hageage
Tamara Hageage
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Tamara B. Hageage is in her ninth year as the goalkeeper coach and assistant coach at Eastern Washington University.
Hageage has 20 years of coaching experience at the youth and high school levels and as a staff and goalkeeper coach for the Ohio-North Olympic Development Program.In addition, she spent three years as an assistant coach at the University of Toledo (1995-97).
She has her Goalkeeping Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and also earned her advanced national coaching license from the NSCAA.Her book, Effective Soccer Goalkeeping for Women, was published in April 2002 and, in March 2003, she released two goalkeeping videos.Her second book, 50 Complete Goalkeeping Training Sessions, was released on Sept. 4, 2006.In summer 2005, Tamara was the Athletic Director for Sports Ambassadors and led 600 players and 37 coaches at the Haarlem Cup in the Netherlands.
Hageage also had an extensive playing career spanning 21 years at all levels, including national, international and professional.She spent her freshman year at Colorado College where she went to the Final Four.In her sophomore season, she transferred to the University of Washington and played from 1991-93.
As a starter at UW, she set three school records and ranks among the all-time leaders for the Huskies for career goals against average (1.21), career saves (189), career shutouts (11), season saves (106), season shutouts (eight), and most saves in a single match (performances of 14, 13, and 12 on two occasions).She also won UW's defensive MVP and best defensive play awards in 1991.
She went on to play professionally in Denmark, Canada, Russia and semi-pro in the U.S. While in Denmark, she won Player of the Year honors in 1998.
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).