Women's Basketball

Emily Hatfield is in her third season as director of basketball operations, joining the Tennessee Tech staff on July 2019.

After a season of being a graduate manager, Emily ascended the ranks of Kim Rosamond's support staff. Working behind-the-scenes during Tech's turnaround campaign in 2018-19, Hatfield performed a number of different tasks that helped improve day-to-day efficiency, including team activities and meals coordination, game film preparation and social media oversight.

Prior to arriving in Cookeville, Hatfield graduated from Western Carolina University in Spring 2018, where she played four seasons for the Catamount basketball team, competing in 87 career contests and starting 20.

Hatfield assembled a robust academic resume at Western Carolina as well, winning the Alice Benton Award during her senior year as the university's outstanding physical education major, the North Carolina Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance and Sport Management (NCAAHPERD-SM) Female Student-Athlete Scholarship as a sophomore and as a junior.

As a prep player at Hendersonville High School, she enjoyed a prolific career, tallying over 1,000 career points.

Hatfield earned her bachelor's degree in Health and PE from Western Carolina in May 2018. She added her master's degree in Sports Management from Tech in December 2020.

She took part in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's "So You Want To Be A Coach" seminar program in 2021.

Hatfield is the daughter of former Tennessee Tech student-athlete and current football assistant coach Bruce Hatfield and former women's basketball standout Melinda Clayton Hatfield, a 1999 TTU Sports Hall of Fame inductee.