MEET THE DIRECTOR

Tammy grew up playing soccer in Surrey, BC Canada.  She excelled as an athlete and grew a love for the game from a very young age which motivated her to have soccer be a major part of her life.  As a player, coach and league Director, Tammy has the experience and expertise that every young player can benefit from in developing their game. 

She started playing at the age of 4 for her town program winning 5 Provincial Championships and 2 National Titles under coach and father Brian Crawford.  Tammy also played on the Provincial All-Star team for 5 years where she won 4 gold and a silver at the National Championships.  After high school, she played with Langara College where she earned Athlete of the Year, All-Canadian, a Provincial Title, and beat the record for most goals.  After a year she joined the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds and the UBC Alumni club team.  She helped bring the Thunderbirds Gold, Silver and Bronze at the National Championships.  Her individual awards included All-Canadian in all 4 years she played, Canada-West All-Star and 1993 CIAU National Championship MVP.  In the same years Tammy played for UBC Alumni of the Metro Premier League earning 4 more Provincial and National Championships.  Tammy was named to the University of British Columbia Hall of Fame in 2014, an honor only given to 2 other female soccer players.

At the international level, Tammy travelled with the Canadian National team from 1993-1995.  She also played for the Vancouver Whitecaps of the North American W-League for 3 years until she moved to Tampa Florida in 2002 to become the Director of the W-League.  The W-League is a North American Women’s Soccer League that consisted of 34 teams and was the highest level of women’s soccer in North America at the time she was the Director. 

Off the field, Tammy has a Bachelor’s in Human Kinetics, with a specialization in exercise science as well as a Bachelor’s of Education and her professional teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia.  She is a certified NCCP ‘C’ License Soccer Coach.  Tammy coached at the UBC Soccer Schools for many years where she was the 5 & 6 year old Program coordinator and a High Performance Senior Staff Professional Coach.  She was hired to coach and train many of the surrounding club programs in the lower mainland of Vancouver.  She landed the assistant coaching position for Langara College and the assistant coaching position for the U-16 Provincial All-Star Team.  She coached players like Christine Sinclair, arguably the top female player to come out of Canada. At the same time she was the media coordinator for the FIFA U-19 Women’s World Cup that was hosted at Swangard Stadium.

After teaching 1st and 2nd grade for a year, Tammy took a leave from teaching to start a women’s semi-pro soccer team.  She formed the Vancouver Angels who participated in the WPSL (Women’s Premier Soccer League).  After one year, the owner purchased the men’s Professional Team, the Vancouver Whitecaps, and the women were rebranded the Breakers and played in the North American W-League.  Tammy served as the Director of Operations for the women and the Director of Corporate Sales for the men while continuing to play on the team.  She hosted the W-League Championship in 2002.  Later that year, Tammy moved to Tampa, FL where she became the Director of the United Soccer Leagues, W-League.  She moved to Boston in 2005 where she continued to run the league until the end of the season.  At that time she started working as the soccer sales representative for Nike where she worked with many of the large soccer clubs along the Eastern Seaboard.