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Judd Lattimore, a four-year lacrosse letterman for the Tar Heel men's lacrosse team and a 2001 University of North Carolina graduate, was named in August 2006 as a full-time assistant lacrosse coach at his alma mater. North Carolina head coach John Haus made the announcement of the hiring of Lattimore after a national search to replace former UNC assistant coach Michael Burnett who left the program in May 2006 for a high school head coaching opportunity in the state of North Carolina.
Despite his youthful appearance, Lattimore came to Carolina with a wealth of collegiate coaching experience. Lattimore worked as an assistant coach on the collegiate level in the five seasons prior to joining UNC, Iin each of the final four years he helped lead teams to the NCAA Tournament including two Limestone teams which reached the national finals in NCAA Division II and Delaware and Penn squads which reached their first NCAA fields in several years in 2005 and 2006, respectively.
In his first year as a Carolina assistant, Lattimore teamed with fellow assistant Greg Paradine to co-coordinate the Tar Heel offensive attack. The Carolina offense was a major factor in the team's improvement froma a 4-10 record in 2006 to 10-6 in 2007. The Tar Heels scored 175 goals last season after scoring just 119 times in 2006. Lattimore also assisted with the extra-man unit and with faceoff corps that helped sophomore Shane Walterhoefer set a school record with 222 faceoff victories in a single season.
Both a midfielder and attackman as a player at Carolina from 1997-2001, Lattimore was a two-year starter for the Tar Heels and preseason All-America selection as named by Inside Lacrosse Magazine in 2000. Lattimore played for Haus in 2001 as a redshirt senior attackman during Haus' first year as UNC head coach.
While in college, he also worked two summers as camp director of the Auburn Lacrosse Camp in his hometown in upstate New York.
A native of Auburn, N.Y., Lattimore earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in interpersonal and organizational communication from Carolina in May 2001.
Lattimore has been an assistant coach for six full seasons since his graduation from Carolina, all on the collegiate level. In those six years he has helped coach a cadre of teams which finished 68-25 overall, including five squads which have played in the NCAA Division I or NCAA Division II Tournaments.
During the 2005-06 school year, Lattimore worked as an assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania. Working in conjunction with Quaker head coach Brian Voelker and former UNC assistant coach Todd Cavallaro, Lattimore helped lead Penn to a 10-4 overall record, the Quakers' first season with double digits wins since the 1988 campaign. The Quakers earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament field, falling in the first round at Johns Hopkins, while finishing 12th in the final United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association coaches poll for the `06 season.
During the 2004-05 season Lattimore coached at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., under the direction of head coach Bob Shillinglaw, a 1974 University of North Carolina graduate. The Delaware team Lattimore worked with was only the third Blue Hens' squad in history to make the NCAA Tournament field since the opening tournament was played in 1971. The Blue Hens also won the 2005 Colonial Athletic Association regular-season championship.
From 2002 through 2004, Lattimore coached for two seasons as an assistant coach at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C. In that role he was the chief assistant coach and the team's offensive coordinator. As the primary creator and implementer of the Limestone College offense, Lattimore mentored a unit which in 2004 scored an astonishing 19.3 goals per game, the highest average goal per game output of any school in all three divisions of NCAA lacrosse. The team finished 15-2 in 2004 and tied the school record of 314 goals scored.
After graduating from UNC, Lattimore worked for one season as the primary assistant coach and offensive coordinator at Geneseo State University in Geneseo, N.Y. At the State University of New York at Geneseo, Lattimore helped coach the squad to its best record in 20 years with the team going from 4-9 in 2001 to 9-4 in 2002. The team qualified for the conference tournament at season's end while also achieving the highest rank in school history up to that point.
From 1993-96, Lattimore was an outstanding high school student-athlete at Auburn High School. As a lacrosse player he was a high school All-America, while captaining the 1996 Auburn team and being selected for the North-South senior all-star game held at the end of each high school season. He was also a two-year high school All-America in swimming at Auburn High School.
Lattimore played on the 1993, 1994 and 1995 Central New York Lacrosse Team at the Empire State Games. He was the captain of that team in 1995.
Judd Lattimore
• Full Name: Judson Paul Lattimore
• Born August 13, 1978 in Auburn, N.Y..
• Single
