Tamara Durante - Field Hockey Coach - Michigan State University Athletics

Tamara Durante

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
tdurante@ath.msu.edu
Phone:
432-1212

Tamara Durante is in her 10th season on the Michigan State field hockey staff and her seventh as the associate head coach. She cam

e to MSU in 2015 and was an assistant coach for three seasons before being promoted to associate head coach in June 2018.

Durante has helped to guide seven Spartans to All-Big Ten accolades, including three first team honorees and five players who have earned National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division I All-West Region recognition.

Durante came to Michigan State after 10 seasons at Yale University. Serving as an assistant coach from 2005 to 2010, Durante was promoted to associate head coach in 2010, spearheading recruiting efforts while working mainly with goalkeepers and forwards.

At Yale, Durante tutored five All-Ivy League goalkeeper selections while helping the Bulldogs increase their season goal totals for six straight years, including a school-record 69 goals in 2011 en route to earning a share of the Ivy League title.

In addition to her work at Yale, Durante also is involved with the United States Field Hockey Association (USFHA). She won a gold medal as an assistant coach for the Under-21 U.S. team at the Junior Pan American Games in October of 2008. Durante has coached in the Futures Program since 2002 and served as the Great Lakes Regional Futures Director from 2003-05. She has selected athletes for various USFHA programs, including the Under-16 national team and Futures Elite. Durante coached at the Junior Olympics from 2006-08 and 2010-13, winning a gold medal in 2012. Most recently, Durante served as an assistant coach for the USA Under-19 National Team and its successor, the USA Rise Team, taking home gold with the U-19 Team at the 2019 Young Women’s National Championship and claiming the bronze medal with the Rise squad at the 2021 Young Women’s National Championship.

Prior to Yale, Durante worked as a head coach for Quebec Field Hockey and as a video technician for Field Hockey Canada before transitioning to assistant field hockey coach at Ohio University in 2001.

A native of Lachine, Quebec, Durante is a 2000 graduate of the University of Alberta and was a five-year starter for the field hockey team there. She helped the Pandas to a silver medal in the CIAU Championship in 1997 and bronze medals in 1996 and 1999.