Haave Family Endowment 2026

Haave Family Endowment
Join former women's basketball coach Tanya Haave in supporting the Haave Family Endowment. This endowment will provide crucial programmatic and scholarship funding for the Roadrunners Women's Basketball program. Your gift will help fully fund the endowment, ensuring that women's basketball student-athletes will have funding in perpetuity.

Coach Haave
One of the top players in the history of the prestigious Tennessee program, Tanya Haave has continued adding to her legacy as MSU Denver's head women's basketball coach.

A three-time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference coach of the year, Haave surpassed Darryl Smith as the winningest coach in school history on Dec. 1, 2018. She has coached 10 players to All-RMAC first team honors a total of 12 times (Georgia Ohrdorf and Allie Navarette were two-time first-team selections). In 2020-21, she coached Allie Navarette to RMAC Player of the Year honors and Kendra Parra to RMAC Co-Freshman of the Year recognition.

Haave led MSU Denver to its best three-year stretch in school history in her first three seasons, compiling a record of 78-17, while posting the top two win totals (30 and 27) and winning percentages (.909 and .871) in program history. She was named the RMAC Coach of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. She has a 7-5 record in national tournament games for the program's only NCAA-tournament wins.

She has also had eight different Academic All-RMAC players receive recognition a total of 10 times. Haave is a native of Evergreen, Colorado, and finished her prep career at Evergreen High School as one of the most decorated high school athletes in state history. She became the first woman in Colorado history to earn the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame High School Athlete of the Year award and was also the 1980 Sportswoman of the Year by the Sportswomen of Colorado. In 2004, she was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame.