Jodi Page enters her second season with the Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team. She was hired on staff in October of 2015, and brings several years of coaching experience from Australia to the Eagles staff.
Page has over 25 years of basketball experience as both a player and a coach. Most recently, Page helped guide the 2015-16 Eastern Washington women’s basketball team to its second-straight 20-win season, where she coached the program’s all-time leading scorer, Hayley Hodgins.
The Aussie native has nearly 20 years of coaching experience in her native land that ranges from the U/12 to the Queensland (QDL) Senior Women’s levels. She spent 1997-2015 coaching various club and representative teams throughout the state. She was an assistant coach for the QLD U/16 State team from 2005-06, and became the head coach of the Sunshine Coast Primary School Girls in 2008.
Page helped guided Matthew Finders Anglican College QLD State School Championships in 2010 and 2012, and then became an assistant coach for her former club team, Maroochydore Clippers of the Queensland Basketball League (QBL) in 2012. Page started her final coaching gig in Australia in 2012, where she served as head coach of Maroochydore’s U/18 team from 2012-14. She won the QLD 2nd Division State Championships with Maroochydore in 2014 and finished 4th in 1st Division in 2015.
Over her time as a coach in Australia, Page also organized and coached teams who traveled to the United State to play in AAU Tournaments and attend coaching camps. She has helped several players from Australia earn scholarships to colleges in America.
She played collegiate in the United States, as she attended San Jose State from 1987-1989. After college, Page pursued other career opportunities, while continuing to play for the Maroochydore Clippers, a club team in the QBL, for 17 seasons until her retirement in 2009. Page still holds the QBL record for most career games played by a female for her club, with 324.
Page resides in Cheney, Washington. She is the mother of two NCAA Division I athletes. Her son, Jorden, played for Saint Mary’s from 2009-13, and her daughter, Soraya, is currently a senior on the Florida International women’s basketball team.
