Young Harris College Athletics

Christine Hatton completed her fourth year as the head coach of the Young Harris College women's lacrosse program. The Mountain Lions had another successful season, winning 11 games, and winning a Conference Carolinas Tournament game on home turf over North Greenville. Young Harris advanced to the quarterfinals in Mount Olive, North Carolina. Five Mountain Lions made the Conference Carolinas All-Conference team under Hatton's leadership, for the second straight season.

Last season, the Mountain Lions won 12 games and made it all the way to the Conference Carolinas Championship game. Young Harris was ranked 10th in NCAA Division II with 498 points (24.90 PPG) and were ranked 13th in scoring offense, averaging 16.25 goals per game. Five Mountain Lions earned Conference Carolinas All-Conference Honors, with Ella Hancock making the first team. Academically, YHC had six women's lacrosse players make the 2024 Spring Presidential Honor Roll.

Hatton guided Young Harris to six wins in year two. The Mountain Lions were ranked fifth in NCAA Division II statistics in ground balls per game (22.00) and 18th in assists per game (7.00). Individually Ella Hancock was named to the All-Gulf South Conference first team. YHC also had 18 players named to the GSC Spring Academic Honor Roll.

Hatton guided the Mountain Lions to seven wins in her first season. YHC was ranked 15th nationally in NCAA Division II statistics in assists per game (7.71). Individually Taylor Greenberg was named to the All-GSC team and the Mountain Lions had eight players named as a Player of the Week in the GSC. Young Harris also had 17 players named to the GSC Spring Academic Honor Roll.

Hatton came to Young Harris after serving the past five seasons as head coach at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where she built the program from the ground up.
  
Hatton led the Mountain Lions to 28 wins in Colorado Springs, including a program best 8-4 record during the 2021 campaign. UCCS finished third in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and advanced to the RMAC Tournament semifinals in 2021.
 
During her five seasons with the Mountain Lions, she coached 17 All-RMAC performers and had 33 players earn RMAC All-Academic accolades. Natalie Church was named the league's Freshman of the Year in 2018.

Prior to her starting at UCCS, Hatton led Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia, to a pair of National Women's Lacrosse League tournament appearances, which served as the national championship tournament for NAIA institutions until this year. She was the NWLL South Region Coach of the Year in 2014 after a runner-up finish in the region. The Eagles finished second in the Appalachian Athletic Conference in 2015 and were the runner-up in the AAC conference tournament twice.

Hatton was the first women's lacrosse coach at Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska, for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. She led the team's development and led the Warriors to a winning season by the second year. Hatton was also on the Board of Directors for the first youth lacrosse program in Nebraska.
 
A Conyers, Georgia, native who played her prep lacrosse at Rockdale County High School, Hatton played for Tennessee Wesleyan College while earning her bachelor's in exercise and sports sciences.  As a three-year letterwinner at TWC, Hatton was part of a squad that had reached the NWLL championship game in 2011.

Hatton earned her master's degree in sports administration from the University of Northern Colorado in 2022.

Updated 7.9.25