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Hope Siffert begins her first season as a full-time assistant coach after serving the last two campaigns as a graduate assistant coach at Midwestern State for the fall of 2017.
 
The native of Bayfield, Colo. joins the Mustangs' staff after spending the three seasons coaching at Durango High School and the Durango Young Soccer Association. She served as an assistant at DHS for three years and coached DYSA club soccer since 2010.
 
Siffert also served as an assistant coach at Notre Dame de Namur in 2008 and at Fort Lewis 2013.
 
Before joining the coaching ranks, she played four years of professional soccer including one year with the Colorado Force/Lady Rapids, one season with the South American Chile Colo-Colo, a year with Qbik in Sweden and one season with the Sacramento Storm.
 
A 2002 graduate of Bayfield High School, Siffert was a four-year letter winner at Notre dame de Namur in San Francisco where she was a three-time first team all-conference winner.
 
As a senior, she earned Pacific West Conference Player of the Year and was a first-team all-league performer in the Argonauts inaugural season as a PacWest member.
 
Prior to sitting out the 2004 campaign with an injury, she was named team MVP as a sophomore in 2003 and was a second team all-league performer as a freshman in 2002.
 
She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Psychology from Notre Dame de Namur in 2006.
 
Siffert is working toward a master's degree in Exercise Physiology from MSU.