Oct. 30, 2006

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Judd Lattimore, a four-year lacrosse letterman for the Tar Heels and a 2001 University of North Carolina graduate, was named today as a full-time assistant lacrosse coach at his alma mater. North Carolina head coach John Haus made the announcement of the hiring. Lattimore has worked as an assistant coach on the collegiate level the past five seasons and in each of the past four years he has helped lead teams to the NCAA Tournament.

Lattimore joins a UNC staff which includes Haus, who is entering his seventh season as head coach, Greg Paradine, the other full-time UNC assistant now in his fifth year, and volunteer assistant Pat Olmert, a member of the coaching staff since 1999.

A midfielder and attackman as a player at Carolina, Lattimore was a two-year starter for the Tar Heels and preseason All-America as named by Inside Lacrosse 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 five seasons since his graduation from Carolina. In those five years he has helped coach teams which finished 58-19, including four squads which have played in the NCAA Division I or Division II Tournaments.

This past year Lattimore worked as an assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa. Working in conjunction with Quaker head coach Brian Voelker, Lattimore helped lead UPenn to a 10-4 record, the Quakers' first season with 10 wins since the 1988 campaign. The Quakers earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament field and finished 12th in the final United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association coaches poll.

During the 2004-05 season he coached at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., under the direction of head coach Bob Shillinglaw, a 1974 UNC graduate. The team Lattimore worked with was only the third Blue Hens' squad in history to make the NCAA Tournament field. The Blue Hens won the 2005 Colonial Athletic Association regular season championship.

From 2002-04, Lattimore coached for two seasons as an assistant coach at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C. In that role he was the first assistant coach and the team's offensive coordinator. As the chief creator and implementor of the Limestone offense, Lattimore mentored a unit which in 2004 scored 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 first 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 withthe 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 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. 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.