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Young Harris College

Young Harris, GA 30582
Georgia Southeast
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Christine Hatton

Christine Hatton begins her third year as the head coach of the Young Harris College women's lacrosse program.


Hatton guided Young Harris to six wins last year. 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.

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Casey Korb

Casey Korb begins her first season as an assistant coach for the Young Harris College women's lacrosse program.


Korb comes to the Enchanted Valley after spending the past two seasons as the graduate assistant coach for the women's lacrosse team at Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. While at Marian, she helped build the second-year program up as the defensive coordinator. In addition to her role on the sideline, Korb had a heavy hand in recruiting and helped bring in a 15-person freshman class for the 2020-21 season.


Prior to Marian University, Korb was a key member on the women’s lacrosse team at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After playing two seasons as a starting defender, she quickly transitioned into a coaching role after a career ending injury. During her time on the coaching staff, she helped coach two athletes to individual career records and one to an individual season record for the program.


The Naperville, Illinois, native graduated with her master's degree in management from Marian in June 2021 and earned her bachelor's degree in marketing and studio art from Carthage in May 2019.

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Branden Geldart

Branden Geldart begins his second season as the head coach for the Young Harris College men's lacrosse program.


Geldart helped the Mountain Lions triple their number of wins in his first season. Under his guidance, the Mountain Lions were ranked 14th in NCAA Division II statistics in caused turnovers per game (10.62) and 17th in ground balls per game (35.62). Ben Soenen earned All-Peach Belt Conference first-team honors for a second season, while five YHC players were named to the PBC Men's Lacrosse Team of Academic Distinction.


Geldart came to the Enchanted Valley after spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the men's lacrosse program at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia.


Geldart helped Berry College to 12 victories and to two appearances in the Southern Athletic Association Championships over the past two seasons. Geldart coached five All-SAA offensive performers during that time.


Prior to Berry, Geldart served three seasons as the assistant men's lacrosse coach at Oberlin College. He served as the team's offensive coordinator in 2020 after serving as the defensive coordinator the prior two seasons.


Geldart's offense was off to a solid start for the Yeomen through four games as Oberlin ranked third in the conference in both goals per game (13.25) and assists (33) while scoring on man-up opportunities at a 43.8 percent clip (7-for-16) before the remainder of the spring season was canceled.


In 2019, the Yeomen picked up 531 ground balls and held opponents to a .321 shot percentage. Under his guidance, goalie Calvin Filson made a career-best 157 saves and turned away 51 percent of the shots he faced.


In 2018, Oberlin drastically improved its goals against total going from 219 in 2017 to 149. Filson made 133 saves and turned away over 50 percent of the shots he faced. The Yeomen's backline scooped up a large portion of the team's 502 ground balls while also causing 123 turnovers.


Geldart moved to Oberlin College after coaching two seasons at Catholic University of America where he coached the defensive side of the ball. During his tenure, the Cardinals made it to two consecutive Landmark Conference Championships winning in 2016 and losing in 2017. The Cardinal defense only allowed 7.92 goals per game in 2017 after improving from 9.62 goals-allowed average in 2016.


Throughout college, he coached at Camp Greylock in 2013 and for the Old Line State Lacrosse Club in the summers of 2011 and 2012.


Geldart is a graduate of Frostburg State University, where he was a four-year member of the men's lacrosse team.

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