LATHAM, N.Y. – Quinnten Hatfield '25 (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright) continues to reap awards for his stellar career with the St. Mary's College of Maryland men's lacrosse program as Hatfield was tapped the 2024-25 United East Conference Male Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year Thursday morning (June 12).
 
Hatfield, the first-ever Seahawk to receive this award in the United East, was selected from a pool of 10 male Senior Scholar-Athletes named throughout the academic year.
 
Overall, St. Mary's College has had a total of five Seahawks earn Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors with Hatfield being the first since 2014. He joins Sean Keehan '94 (men's basketball), Sam Burum '11 (men's basketball), Peter Windsor '12 (men's lacrosse), and Andrew Gear '14 (men's tennis) who were all named the Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the Capital Athletic Conference.
 
"We have one award that we give annually as a program and it is the Charlie Mike award, which is given to the person on the team that best exemplifies completing our program's mission; be great in everything you do, so that we can win our day. Q was this year's recipient, and I think this Scholar-Athlete Award is just another example of how he attacks every aspect of his life," 10-year Head Coach Jason Childs shared.
 
Hatfield wrapped up his four-year Seahawk career as a three-time Honorable Mention United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-American (2023, 2024, 2025) and a three-time All-United East selection, earning First Team honors in 2023 and 2025 while landing on the Second Team in 2024.
 
A team captain as a senior, he helped the team to four United East tournament championship titles, three United East regular-season championship crowns, and three trips to the NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship Tournament.
 
This season, the 6-4 short-stick defensive midfielder sat sixth in the league with a team third-best 18 caused turnovers while ranking fifth on the team with 34 ground balls. He also tallied four goals and three assists.
 
Hatfield amassed 153 ground balls, 57 caused turnovers, 22 goals, and 10 assists during his four-year career.
 
He excelled off the field as well, graduating with a 3.982 cumulative GPA as a double major in physics and computer science and a mathematics minor. Hatfield made the Dean's List every semester, which awards those students who earn a minimum semester grade-point average of 3.50 or better on all courses attempted with at least 12 credit hours taken for a letter grade.
 
Hatfield is a member of Chi Alpha Sigma, the national collegiate student-athlete honor society for juniors and seniors, and Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics and astronomy honor society. He is also a two-time United East Scholar-Athlete (2021 and 2022) while landing on the United East Winter/Spring All-Academic Team in his last two seasons.
 
He claimed the United East Elite 20 Award in 2023 and 2024. Additionally, Hatfield landed on the 2023 and 2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Teams. He claimed the Physics Department Service Award in 2023 and served as a physics teaching assistant during the 2023-24 academic year.
 
In his community, he was an active member of the St. Mary's College Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, taking part in their trick-or-treat community event and their Special Olympics Field Day.
 
Childs added, "Quinnten genuinely lives his life in a way that he is competing against himself every day to be the best version he can be. It is very inspiring, contagious, and daunting at times as someone who tries to keep up with him. He has meant so much to so many teammates, coaches, alums, and parents of players, and we have been sincerely blessed to have him around here for the last four years! I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we are very proud to have called him our Captain!"
 
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