After a decorated athletic career as a student-athlete from 2003-07, Tamara Maggard returned to her alma mater to coach the Blazer softball team in the spring of 2007.

Maggard came to Hood from Patapsco High School in Baltimore and participated in soccer and softball for four years and basketball her senior year.

A lifetime .303 hitter in softball, she has appeared in 106 games for the Blazers, ranking her second all-time. Her 86 career basehits rank her fourth on Hood’s career chart. In addition, her 57 career RBI list third all-time and she is Hood’s all-time leader in walks with 45. She has made 32 appearances in the circle in her four years, tossing 154 and one-third innings with 11 victories and 98 strikeouts. She helped guide the Blazers to back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Tournament and consecutive Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference championship titles. She was twice named to the all-AWCC second team and earned first-team recognition as a senior.

Maggard earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Hood in May of 2007.