Robert Sausaman
	Hometown: Gainesville, Fla. Last College: University of Memphis Height: 6-2 Position: Assistant Coach Birthdate: 03/11/1987

Robert Sausaman joined his alma mater's staff for the 2010 season. Sausaman spend the 2010 season as a graduate student at the U of M in sports and leisure commerce and business administration.

For 2011, Sausaman was in charge of a defensive group, featuring returners J.J. Greer, Jordan Johnson and Thomas Shannon, as well as two-time Tennessee Player of the Year Chandler Gagnon.

The Tigers' backline was instrumental during the 2011 campaign in securing six shutouts on the season, the most by a Memphis squad since 2004. The team held No. 18 Bradley without a single shot on goal.

Behind the strength of the defensive backline, Memphis posted a 366:42-minute shutout streak, a streak that began during the Marshall contest, included games against FIU, UNO and Tulsa and ended with a penalty-kick goal in the 90th minute at UAB. The penalty kick at UAB was the only goal surrendered by the Tigers in a span of 484:38-minutes from the end of the Marshall game until the middle of the UCA contest.

Under Sausaman's direction, Memphis sophomore J.J. Greer converted from forward to the backline and earned the final C-USA Defender of the Week award in 2010.

As a defender under Richie Grant from 2005-08, Sausaman understands the high level of expectations Grant holds his players and coaches to. Sausaman routinely met and exceeded those expectations during his four years wearing the blue and gray, starting 43 of his 67 appearances during his playing career. Sausaman tallied three goals and four assists during his four years of back-line work for the Tigers.

Sausaman was part of a stout 2007 defense as a junior that held opponents to a conference-low 0.89 goals-per-game and helped earn seven shutouts for the Tigers. In 2008, Sausaman was one of six senior captains for a veteran Memphis squad.

2008 (Senior): Appeared in 15 games for the Tigers...Tallied one assist on the season on a Parker Duncan goal against Central Arkansas...Named to the C-USA All-Academic Team for the third year in a row...Earned placement for the second year in a row on the NSCAA/Adidad Scholar All-South Region Team...Named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District IV Team for the second time in his career.

2007 (Junior): Played in all 19 games for the Tigers, compiling 11 starts ... Assisted on the game winning goal for the Tigers in a 2-1 win over Evansville ... Scored a goal against Kentucky, off a free kick by teammate Sean Goulding ... Helped the Tiger defense record seven shutouts ... Was named to the 2007 Conference USA All-Academic Team for the second year in a row ... 2007 NSCAA/Adidas Scholar All-South Region Second Team ... Honored with the 2007 Tommy Smith Award.

2006 (Sophomore): Started the first 12 games of the season on the Tiger defense ... Notched his first point of the season by recording an assist in the Tigers' 4-3 overtime win over Louisville on Aug. 25 ... Recorded a shot on goal in a 3-1 win over Air Force on Sept. 15 ... Picked up his second assist on a Tripp Harkins goal against Tulsa on Sept. 30 ... Harkins returned the favor by assisting on Sausaman's first goal of the season on Oct. 11 against UAB.

2005 (Freshman): Played in 15 of the Tigers' 18 games and had seven starts ... Forced a 2-2 tie at home against South Carolina with a goal in the final two minutes ... Took two of his three season shots against Centenary ... Against conference opponents, had starts against East Carolina, Kentucky, Marshall, Florida International and UCF.

Prior to Memphis-- Prepped at F.W. Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Fla. ... Captain of the Florida 87 ODP team ... An all-area selection his junior year and a preseason all-area pick his senior year ... Team captain of his high school team ... Was named 'Player of the Decade' at F.W. Buchholz High School... Scored 13 goals with 17 assists his senior year, and had 34 career goals and 30 assists ... High school coach was Kelly Childers ... Played club soccer for the Brandon Flames.

Personal-- Born Mar. 11, 1987, in Evansville, Ind. ... Son of Jeff and Mary Sausaman ... Younger brother, Kent, is a defender at Flagler College.

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GP-GS G A Pts Sh Shot% SOG SOG% GW PK-ATT

2005 15-7 1 0 2 3 .333 2 .667 0 0-0
2006 18-18 1 2 4 5 .200 3 .600 0 0-0
2007 19-11 1 1 3 5 .200 2 .400 0 0-0
Total 67-43 3 3 9 13 .231 7 .538 0 0-0