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Head Coach
Robin Hagen-Smith
 
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Robin Hagen-Smith just completed her 27th year as Women's Head Basketball Coach at Shawnee State University with an overall record of 640-187.  She began her tenure in 1983 as SSU competed in the NJCAA as a junior college, where she posted a 76-52 record.  In 1988, Robin helped Shawnee State make the transition from a two-year college to a four-year college in the NAIA.  Since 1988, Coach Hagen-Smith has posted a record of 564-135, ranking her one of the all-time winningest active coaches and overall winningest coaches ever in the NAIA.

During the 2009-2010 season, Coach Hagen-Smith helped lead the team to their first-ever NAIA Division II National Runner-up Title.  In 2008-2009, Coach Hagen-Smith added to her resume a perfect regular season mark of 29-0, while winning her tenth conference championship as the Bears' finished 15-0.  She has led the Bears to seventeen national tournament appearances finishing with 11 Sweet Sixteen's, two Elite Eight's, one Final Four, one National Runner-up, and a National Championship in 1999.  From 1997-2002, the Bears won six straight conference championships.  Robin has received many coaching awards that include MOC and AMC Coach of the Year (six times), 1997-1998 WBCA IKON Coach of the Year, 1998-1999 NAIA National Coach of the Year, 1998-1999 Dispatch Women's Ohio College Basketball Coach of the Year, and in 2007-2008 was named the NAIA Region IX Coach of Character Award Winner. 

Hagen-Smith's basketball success at Shawnee State began in 1979 when she played for Shawnee State Community College before transferring in 1981 to the University of Rio Grande.  It was there that she finished her playing career in 1983.  In 1989 she was inducted into the Rio Grande Athlete Hall of Fame.  In 1998 she was inducted into South Webster (Ohio) Hall of Fame.  She received the Portsmouth Spirit of Leadership Award in 1999.  She was inducted into the Shawnee State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.  In 2009 she was inducted into the Shawnee State University Athletic Hall of Fame again, this time she was joined as the entire 1999 National Championship Women's Basketball Team entered the Hall of Fame.  Coach Hagen-Smith was just inducted on May 22, 2010 into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame as an outstanding coach in women's college basketball.  The 1999 National Championship Team was also inducted as an outstanding college women's basketball team. 

Hagen-Smith received her bachelors degree in Physical Education/Health from Rio Grande in 1983.  In 1984 she received her masters degree in Education from Xavier University.  She is a full-time faculty member at Shawnee State.

Robin and her husband, Gregg, reside in Portsmouth with their daughters Ali and Aleza.
 
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