Roadrunners Women's Basketball 2024

Haave Family Endowment
Join women's basketball head coach Tanya Haave in supporting the Haave Family Endowment. This newly created 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.

Women's Basketball
Coach Haave's teams have excelled in the classroom and on the court. The Roadrunners made a strong push at the end of the season and missed the playoffs by just two games. The team had four losses in games they were in position to win the final minute – three of those in the final 10 seconds. Sophomore Mikylah Espinosa earned First-Team All-Conference accolades by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference this season.

In the classroom, Brooklynn Jones, Mariana Silva Pereira and Brianna Sealy were named to the Academic All-District list. Silva Pereira becomes the program's first-ever two-time academic all-district selection.

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 is in her her 14th season as the head coach of the Roadrunners in 2023-24. She surpassed Darryl Smith as the winningest coach in school history on Dec. 1, 2018, and is now 237-138 as the Roadrunners' head coach.

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, Colo., 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.

Join fellow Roadrunners in supporting Roadrunners basketball during the fifth annual Roadrunners Athletics Giving Challenge! When you make a gift to the team, you help enhance the student-athlete experience for each Roadrunner at MSU Denver. Your support also gets Roadrunners basketball one step closer to being crowned Roadrunners Athletics Giving Challenge champions!

The top three teams with the most donors and the team that raises the most money will receive bonus funds for their programs. Will women's basketball be the winner? You decide!

So rally together with fellow Roadrunners to make our programs strong and to give our student-athletes the resources they need to be successful. Show your support by helping the women's basketball team win the Roadrunners Athletics Giving Challenge when you make your gift today.