Hana Haden recently completed her first season as head women's basketball coach at Georgia Southern University in 2024-25.
The Eagles compiled an overall 16-18 record, including a 6-12 mark in the Sun Belt Conference, but Georgia Southern ended the season winning 7 of its last 11 games. This included a pair of wins in the 2025 Sun Belt Conference Championships as the Eagles defeated Southern Miss, 70-59, in the first round and ULM, 75-69, in the second round. It was the first time that Georgia Southern had won multiple games in the Sun Belt Tournament and the first time winning multiple games in a conference tournament since 2005.
Other notables from Haden's debut campaign included a 4-0 start to the season, which was the best start since 1988-89 and the fourth-best in program history; the 16 wins were the most in a season for a debut GS head women's basketball coach since 1996; Georgia Southern had a school-record 18-point comeback win vs. Wright State on December 19 and the Eagles also notched a 25-point road win at Georgia State on Jan. 8, the largest road win over the Panthers in series history. The team also opened up play in the brand new Jack and Ruth Ann Hill Convocation Center in December and fashioned an overall 8-6 record at home, the fifth straight winning season at home for the Eagles.
She achieved her 200th head collegiate coaching victory with the first-round SBC Tournament win over Southern Miss and, in her head coaching career, now sports a 201-83 (.708) overall record in nine seasons.
Haden was announced as the ninth women's basketball head coach in program history on March 29. She came to Statesboro after a historic 2023-24 season in Americus, Georgia, where she led Georgia Southwestern State to a 29-4 overall record and a 16-2 mark in the Peach Belt Conference, earning 2023-24 WBCA Division II National Coach of the Year honors. The 'Canes won the Peach Belt tournament title and the NCAA Southeast Region crown, earning the program's first NCAA Division II Elite Eight berth. Haden led the 'Canes to a second straight Peach Belt title and a school record for wins in a season.
Prior to her historic season at Georgia Southwestern State, Haden served as head coach at Moberly Area Community College for five seasons. With the Lady Greyhounds, Haden compiled a 118-36 (.766) record and made five NJCAA Region 16 tournament appearances. Haden was named to the WBCA's 30 Under 30 Coaches four times and twenty-five of her players at MACC went on to compete at the four-year level.
She became a head coach at the age of 23 at Harris-Stowe State University, an NAIA school in St. Louis. Haden led the Hornets to back-to-back 19-win seasons, the first consecutive winning seasons in 29 years for the school. Haden started her coaching career as an assistant at the University of Missouri-St. Louis for the 2014-15 season and served as an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at Southland Conference champion Lamar during the 2017-18 season.
Haden played collegiately at UMSL for one season and Mineral Area College for one season before transferring to Western Carolina, where she started 47 of 60 games over two seasons for the Catamounts. During her senior season, she hit 5-of-8 shots from the floor, including 3-of-5 threes, in leading WCU to a 74-72 win over Georgia Southern in Hanner Fieldhouse.
She graduated from WCU with her bachelor's degree in communications in 2014.
