Staff

Head Coach

Tao Shen
tao.shen@skagit.edu 702-580-2828

Coach Shen recently finished with his first season at Skagit Valley College. The program made a positive step towards our bright future. He was recognized by his peers and was awarded Coach of the Year for the Northern Regional Conference.

Before becoming as the head coach at SVC, he was an assistant coach at Whatcom CC from '07-'09 where he helped establish a dominant program in the NWAACC conference. He also assisted at Tacoma CC for one year. Tao is very excited to take on the unique and challenging opportunity to work with everyone to rebuild the Cardinal program into one that is accustomed to success and is respected among their NWAACC peers.

He played his collegiate soccer at Concordia University in Portland, OR where he helped the team to win a conference championship and a national ranking as high as #16 in the country. He also played one year at Spokane CC and helped the team with a 3rd place finish in 2005. Coach Shen played semi-professionally with the Yakima Reds (PDL) and Las Vegas Strikers (MPSL) during his summer month away from Washington State University.

Coach Shen, a native Chinese, lived 5 years in Germany where he started to develop a passion for the game of soccer. He is excited and honored to lead the Cardinal Soccer back to its winning ways. He has earned a degree in Pharmacy from Washington State University and currently works as a staff pharmacist at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, WA.

Assistant Coach

Heidi Dettmer

Heidi Dettmer is in her first season with the Cardinal soccer program. A Snohomish, WA. native, Dettmer played 4-years of Division I college soccer at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL. She was also a three-year starter at Snohomish High School and led the Panthers to the state quarterfinals all three seasons. She was named second-team all-state and all-WESCO and team MVP as a senior. She also played club soccer for the Emerald City FC and served as captain all four years.

Currently, she is coaching for a premier youth soccer club and recently finished her first season as the JV Girls Head Coach at Archbishop High School. Dettmer spent her time as a coaching staff with Seattle Sounders youth summer camps and other premier camps in the Northwest. She is looking forward in working with young women who aspire to play in the next level and build a successful Cardinal Women's Soccer Program.

Assistant Coach

Shane Inman

360-941-0861

Coach Inman comes to Skagit Valley College with a lenthy coaching and community resume, with the goal to strengthen not only the Skagit Valley College Soccer (futbol) program, but to heighten the interest and excitement of the community.

He is National C license candidate. He coached for the Burlington youth soccer program progressing to Head Coach with then Skagit Storm Select from 1995 to 2000. He served from 2000 to 2002 with Mount Vernon High School as the C team coach and Assistant Varsity Coach. He currently hold the positions of Coach Coordinator and County Representative for Mount Vernon Youth Soccer.

He has played the game at many levels to include select soccer as a youth, high level mens divisions, to a Marine Corps Regional Soccer Championship. He has completed his active service from the Marine Corps. He truly loves the game, what it teaches, and is always willing to educate and energize others to do the same.

Coach Inman will focus in improving on the strength and conditioning part of our soccer program. In addition, he will serve as the recruiting coordinator for this program.