Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College Athletics
Box 400 - 300 North Washington St Gettysburg, PA 17325

Division 3 Pennsylvania Northeast

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Charlotte Hibbard

AT A GLANCE

Took over as head coach in 2023 (2nd season)

19-5 record, NCAA Division III runners-up in first season

Regular-season Centennial Conference champions with 9-0 record, runner-up in conference tournament in 2023

Assistant at Gettysburg from 2018-22

AT GETTYSBURG

Taking over as just the fourth head coach since the inception of the Bullets’ women’s lacrosse program in 1971, there was no fall off in the success of the program in Cunningham’s first year at the helm in 2023.

She guided Gettysburg to the Division III national championship game for the fifth time in program history and had the team ranked in the top 10 of the IWLCA coaches’ poll each week during the season.

The Bullets posted a perfect 9-0 Centennial Conference (CC) record and went 19-5 overall, including winning 17 of the last 19 games. Her offense set a new program standard, pouring in a record 379 goals and 557 points to go with a record-setting 358 draw controls.

She coached three Gettysburg players to the top awards in the conference with Jordan Basso (attacker), Lily Macatee (defensive) and Julia Daly (rookie) taking home hardware at season’s end. Four players also garnered All-America honors.

Prior to taking over as head coach, Cunningham spent four years as an assistant coach on the staff of 30-yard head coach Carole Cantele ‘82.

In four seasons as an assistant, Cunningham has helped Gettysburg to a 47-8 record while coaching 15 All-America selections, 17 all-region selections, and 21 all-conference performers. In the two full seasons that she was on the sidelines as an assistant, the Bullets spent all but seven weeks as a top-five team in the country, including eight weeks as the No. 1 team in 2019. That squad finished 19-2 overall, claimed its 12th CC title, and advanced to the NCAA regional championship.

In 2022, the Bullets posted a 19-4 mark and claimed the program’s 13th CC title before advancing to the national semifinals for the eighth time in 17 seasons.

In addition to leading the recruiting efforts, Cunningham led the strength and conditioning program for the Gettysburg women’s lacrosse program. She also had a key role in designing the Bullets’ offensive strategy while leading the draw control unit and training the goalies.

She has also served as leader in both the Gettysburg Athletics Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and Student-Athlete Well-Being Program. She has also served as a coach within 3D Lacrosse, leading weekly trainings and speaking on panels to student-athletes on the collegiate recruiting process.

PRIOR TO GETTYSBURG

Cunningham joined the Bullets staff from East Stroudsburg University, where she served as the graduate assistant women’s lacrosse coach for the 2018 season. During her time there, she helped the squad to its first regional championship and Division II NCAA national semifinal appearance after posting a 15-4 mark. Six players were voted all-region under her guidance.

PLAYING DAYS

As a student-athlete, Cunningham was a four-year member of the Division II Seton Hill University women’s lacrosse team, where she earned second team all-conference as a senior. She tallied a career total of 37 goals and 86 assists.

Cunningham graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communications and Advocacy Media Communications from Seton Hill in 2017 and earned her master’s in Management and Leadership; Organizational Behavior in the summer of 2018 from East Stroudsburg.

She had success in the classroom as well at Seton Hill as a member of the honors program and graduating magna cum laude. She earned the Communications Leadership Award in 2017 and was the recipient of the Award for Undergraduate Research from the Pennsylvania Communication Association in 2016.