Coaching Staff

Hatton enters his third season at the helm of the Green Terror men’s lacrosse program.

He won his first three games as mentor and is 13-16 over his first two seasons, playing a highly competitive schedule that includes three top 10 teams nationally within the Centennial Conference.

A 2001 graduate of Hobart College, Hatton has spent the three seasons as the defensive coordinator at McDaniel before being promoted to the interim head coach role in August 2006 and hired as the full-time coach that October.

During his tenure as an assistant, Hatton was primarily responsible for the close defense, defensive midfielders and goalkeepers, coaching two defensive All-Americans.

In his initial season on staff in 2004, he orchestrated the Green Terror’s best penalty killing on record, allowing the opposition to score on just 15 of 62 (.231) extra-man opportunities.

While in his previous role, Hatton developed the team’s weightlifting program and was responsible for developing the scouting reports for opponents.

Since 1994, he has worked at various summer lacrosse camps, including the prestigious Top Star Lacrosse Camp and Top 205 Lacrosse Camp. He has also been a part of camps at the University of North Carolina and Hobart in addition to being on staff at the All-American Lacrosse Camp, All-Star Lacrosse Camps and Top-Line Lacrosse Camp.

During his playing career at Hobart, he was a four-year letterwinner and two-year starter on defense. He also was a part of two trips to the NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse tournament in 1998 and 2000. The Statesmen also won the Patriot League Championship in 2000.

In November, Hatton married the former Carol Schmoeller, an assistant on the McDaniel volleyball staff.

Chaapel enteres his second season on the Green Terror staff after spending the 2007 season on the sidelines at his alma mater, Binghamton University.

While on staff with the Bearcats, Chaapel worked primarily with the offense, goalkeepers and man-up offense.

A 2006 graduate with a bachelor of science in human development, he was a three-year captain and four-year starter for the Division I squad. As a freshman, he led the team in assists (12) while on attack. Before his sophomore year, he moved to midfield, where he spent the next three seasons and racked up 19 goals and six assists, finishing with 44 career points.

A Penn Yan, N.Y., native, Chaapel is currently pursuing a master's degree in counseling education at McDaniel.

A 2007 graduate of the College, Nutter joins the Green Terror staff in 2009.

A four-year midfielder for the Green Terror, Nutter served as a team captain his senior year.

Nutter joins the McDanel staff with experience on the high school level, most recently serving as an assistant at his high school, Moorestown High School in Moorestown, N.J., where he also served as a substitute teacher.

Nutter primarily worked with the offense and ran the substitution box while at Moorestown, seeing the team win the New Jersey Group II State Tournament.

Nutter, who graduated with a bachelors of arts in sociology, is currently pursuing his masters in counseling education.