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Hana Haden

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Hana Haden was named the 14th head coach of the women's basketball program on March 26, 2026.

The 2026 Sun Belt Coach of the Year, Haden joined the Tigers from Georgia Southern where she went 23-8 and 16-2 in conference play. Despite being picked 10th in the preseason coaches’ poll, the Eagles captured their first regular season title in 25 seasons, earning a bid to the WBIT.

The 2025-26 season marked an incredible turnaround for a program that, in the season prior to Haden’s arrival in 2024, went 4-14 in SBC play. In her inaugural season in Statesboro, she went 16-18 (6-12 Sun Belt), winning seven of the final 11 games including two conference tournament wins for the first time since GSU joined the Sun Belt in 2014-15.

The Eagles were one of the best Group of Five teams in college basketball in 2025-26, ranking 73rd in the NET and finishing 17th in College Insider’s Mid Major Top 25. They finished 77th nationally in offensive efficiency, per BartTorvik.com, behind rankings of 63rd in two-point field goal percentage (49.7%) and 69th in turnover rate (19.7%).

Senior wing Kishyah Anderson had a breakout season in her first year under Haden in 2025-26. Anderson was named the Sun Belt Player of the Year behind 14.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game and shooting splits of 50.6% from the field, 46.7% from distance and 76.2% from the line.

A consummate winner at multiple levels of collegiate basketball, Haden’s all-time record across 10 seasons as a head coach is 224-91 (.711). She spent the 2023-24 season at Georgia Southwestern State, achieving a 29-4 overall record and a 16-2 mark in the Peach Belt Conference. The 2023-24 WBCA Division II National Coach of the Year, Haden led the Hurricanes to the Peach Belt tournament title and the NCAA Southeast Region crown, the program's first NCAA Division II Elite Eight berth.

From 2018-23, Haden coached at Moberly Area Community College, making five NJCAA Region 16 tournament appearances in as many years. She was named to the WBCA's 30 Under 30 Coaches four times, and 28 of her 45 players at MACC went on to compete at the senior college level.

The talent that Haden developed in Moberly would go on to flourish at multiple collegiate levels. Of the 28 student-athletes who advanced their playing careers, 19 did so at the Division-I level, totaling 997 games and 7,239 points after departing MACC. DeAnna Wilson tallied 1,585 points at Illinois State, the seventh-most in school history, and Indya Green totaled 1,387 across stops at Missouri State, Georgia Southern and Southern Illinois.

Haden also won a Southland Conference regular season championship as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Lamar in 2017-18. Her head coaching career began at the age of 23 at Harris-Stowe State University, an NAIA school in St. Louis. She led the Hornets to back-to-back 19-win seasons, their first consecutive winning seasons in 29 years.

A native of Springfield, Missouri, Haden played two seasons at Western Carolina following stints at University of Missouri-St. Louis and Mineral Area College. She helped guide the Catamounts to their first Southern Conference semifinals in six years and graduated cum laude in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in communication with concentrations in journalism and broadcast journalism.