Tamara Statman
Tamara Statman Schoen is an American-Israeli softball player. Born on July 26, 1997, in San Diego and raised in Phoenix, she became a standout at Horizon High School in Scottsdale, known for her pitching and powerful play. She finished her high school career with more than 1,000 strikeouts, 85 wins, and a 1.77 ERA, and she started a charity drive called “T's K's for Skin Cancer.”
She played for the University of Arizona from 2015 to 2019 as a left-handed hitter and pinch hitter, with a career batting average of .280, 100 hits, 10 home runs, and 62 RBIs. She helped Arizona win the 2017 Pac-12 Championship and appeared in the 2019 Women’s College World Series. Her clutch moments include a game-winning hit against Tennessee in the 2016 Knoxville Regional and a pinch-hit single to beat Auburn in the 2019 Tucson Regional. She earned Academic All-America honors in 2019.
Statman joined the Israel women’s national softball team from 2019 to 2021, playing in two European Championships. She is Jewish and holds dual USA–Israel citizenship, becoming an Israeli citizen in 2019. Off the field, she has danced on the West Coast, interned at Nike in 2017, and hosted a radio show on KAMP Radio at the University of Arizona; she was named Miss Tucson Del Sol 2020 and wrote a book, The Real Deal Student Athlete Success Kit, in 2020. She married Josh Schoen in May 2021, and they welcomed their first child in 2024. In 2022 she was inducted into the Israeli Softball Association Maccabiah Hall of Fame, and in 2025 she joined Project Max as an advisory board member, a group that uses sports to fight racism, antisemitism, and intolerance.
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