Tamara Tatham

Tamara Tatham (born August 19, 1985) is a Canadian former professional basketball player and coach. She was a member of the Canada women's national basketball team and competed in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. Tatham was the head coach of the Toronto Varsity Blues women's basketball team from 2020-2024.

Playing career Tatham played college basketball at the University of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, appearing in a total of 115 games for the Minutewomen, averaging 10.3 points, 6.6 boards, 2.0 assists and 1.7 steals a contest.

She kicked off her professional career in 2007, signing with Catz Lappeenranta in Finland, where she spent the 2007-08 campaign. Tatham enjoyed great success in her five years in Germany, representing the SV Halle Lions (2008–09, 2010 - 2013) and TSV Wasserburg (2009–10), hauling in 2012 Eurobasket.com All-German DBBL Player of the Year honours as well as Eurobasket.com All-German DBBL Defensive Player of the Year distinction in 2009 and 2012.

After leaving Germany, Tatham took her game to Slovakia, signing with Extraliga outfit Piestanske Cajky in 2013. In her second season with the club (2014–15), she earned Eurobasket.com All-Slovakian Extraliga Player of the Year honours.

Tatham played for Townsville Fire of the Australian WNBL in 2015, followed by a one-year stint in Russia, representing Dynamo Novosibirsk in 2016-17. She signed with USO Mondeville of the French league LFB for the 2017-18 campaign.

National team Tatham played for Canada's women's national team at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games as well as at the 2010 and 2014 World Championships. She also represented her country at the Panamerican Games, reaching the semis in 2007 and winning gold in 2015. Tatham was a member of the Canadian squad that captured a bronze medal at the 2011 FIBA Americas, a silver medal at the 2013 FIBA Americas and a gold medal at the 2015 FIBA Americas.

Pan Am games 2015 Tatham was a member of the Canada women's national basketball team which participated in basketball at the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 10 to 26, 2015. Canada opened the preliminary rounds with an easy 101–38 win over Venezuela. The following day they beat Argentina 73–58. The final preliminary game was against Cuba; both teams were 2–0, so the winner would win the group. The game went down to the wire with Canada eking out a 71–68 win.

Coaching career In April 2021, Tatum was named the head coach of the Varsity Blues women's basketball program at the University of Toronto. She had been named the assistant coach since June 2017 and became the interim head coach in 2020 after the retirement of Michèle Bélanger. After nationwide search, the school concluded that the two-time Olympian should be named as the head coach.

In May 2024, U of T announced that she would not be continuing as women's basketball head coach, and was leaving the university.