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Tammy Crawford
Canadian soccer player
Tammy Gage (née Crawford; born October 17, 1974) is a Canadian former women's soccer player and the former Director of Operations of the USL W-League.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tammy Gage | ||
| Birth name | Tammy Crawford | ||
| Date of birth | (1974-10-17) October 17, 1974 (age 49)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Surrey, British Columbia | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder[2] | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sur-Del Girls Soccer Club | |||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992 | Langara Falcons | ||
| 1993–1996 | UBC Thunderbirds | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000 | Vancouver Angels | ||
| 2001–2003 | Vancouver Breakers/Whitecaps | ||
| International career | |||
| 1993–1994 | Canada | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Crawford began playing soccer in Surrey, British Columbia at the age of four.[3] During her youth career, she was coached by her father, Brian Crawford, going on to win five provincial championships and two national titles for her club team and also played for the BC provincial team for five years where she won four gold medals and a silver medal at the National Championships.[3]
After high school, she attended Langara College where she played on the soccer team and earned Athlete of the Year, All-Canadian, a Provincial Title, set the school's goal scoring record.[3] After a year, she moved to the University of British Columbia playing for the Thunderbirds women's team, earning Gold, Silver and Bronze in consecutive years at the National Championships as well as being named an All-Canadian four times, Canada-West All-Star and the 1993 CIAU National Championship MVP.[4][5] She was named to the University of British Columbia Hall of Fame in 2014.[3]
While at UBC, she won the Jubilee Trophy, the Canadian amateur championship, twice in 1994 and 1996 with Coquitlam SC Metro Ford Strikers and UBC Alumni respectively.[6]
In 2000, while working as a substitute teacher, David Stadnyk, a local Vancouver businessman, was interested in starting a women’s soccer team and he contacted Crawford to help put together a women's team. Together they formed the Vancouver Angels playing in the US-based Women's Premier Soccer League, with Crawford also playing on the team.[1]
A year later, the Angels merged with the Vancouver Lady 86ers to become the Vancouver Breakers playing in the USL W-League, with Crawford remaining on the team (they again were renamed to the Whitecaps the following year).[7] While with Vancouver, she served as Director of Operations for the Whitecaps Women and worked corporate sales for the Vancouver Whitecaps men's team.[1]
She remained with the Whitecaps through the 2003 season, after which she became the League Director of the USL W-League.[1]
She played with the Canada women's national soccer team in 1993 and 1994.[1]
In 2006, she married Derek Gage.[8] She currently owns and serves as director of NexStar Soccer in Florida.[9]
- "Canadians In Soccerdom: Tammy Crawford". Nuke Soccer. August 24, 2004. Archived from the original on July 17, 2005.
- "[1994-03] Women's international camp in USA". Canadian Soccer Association. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
- "Meet the Director". nexStar Soccer.
- "Sinclair joins W-League Breakers". CBC. April 11, 2001.
- Samuels, Adrienne P. (August 2, 2006). "Wedding in Florida Botanical Gardens - Saying "I do' in an Eden". Tampa Bay Times.
- Hass, Trevor (August 15, 2018). "Same team, new experience". Duxbury Clipper.