Bio

Palomar's head women's tennis coach from 1975 through 2000, Haugen guided the Comets to more than 300 wins, a second-place finish in a national community college tournament in Florida in 1977. Haugen's Palomar teams won the state team championship in 1983, when the Comets went 18-0, and 1986, when they were 22-0. Palomar won 10 conference championships under Haugen and also placed second in the state tournament in 1987, 1988, 1991 and 1992. Haugen was named Coach of the Year on the conference and state levels nine times and was inducted into the California Community College Tennis Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2006. She played four seasons of varsity tennis at USC and received her Ed.D degree in Educational Leadership from the University of San Diego.