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Robin
Hagen-Smith
740-351-3271
Robin Hagen-Smith
enters her twenty-first year as Women’s Head Basketball Coach at
Shawnee State University with a record of 535-128. She has taken the
Bears to fourteen national tournament appearances finishing with
eight Sweet Sixteen's, two Elite Eight's, one Final Four, and a National Championship in
1999. In 2008-2009, she lead the Bears to their first undefeated regular
season with a record of 30-0 and a mark of 15-0 in the AMC, winning
back-to-back Conference Championships. From 1997 - 2002, the Bears won 6 straight conference
championships. Robin has received many
coaching awards that include MOC and AMC Coach of the Year (7 times), 1997-98 WBCA IKON
Coach of the Year, 1998-99 NAIA National Coach of the Year, and 1998-99 Dispatch
Womens Ohio College Basketball Coach of the Year. She also
received the Champion of Character NAIA Region IX Coach of Character
Award in 2008.
Hagen-Smiths basketball success at SSU 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.
Her coaching career started at Shawnee State Community College and
she posted a 76-52 record in five seasons prior to the transition to
NAIA in 1988. 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 to the Athletic
Hall fo Fame as coach of the 1999 National Championship 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 SSU.
Robin and her husband, Gregg, reside in Portsmouth
with their daughters Ali and Aleza.
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