Karin Young joined the Belmont University women's tennis program as a graduate assistant coach under head coach Ellie Burger in August of 2025.

A four-year letter winner at the University of Oregon, Young garnered All-Pac-12 honorable mention recognition as a true freshman and worked her way up to the No. 2 spot in the singles lineup as a senior. Young led the Ducks with a .850 singles winning percentage during the 2022 spring season, going 17-3. It was the fifth-best singles winning percentage in a season in Oregon history. She also went a team-best 16-9 overall in singles as a junior in 2023-24. Her senior season, Young won eight matches at No. 2 singles while posting a 14-13 overall record in doubles.

Coming out of high school, Young was rated as a five-star prospect, the top-ranked player in Minnesota and the No. 57 player in the nation by TennisRecruiting.net. A native of Apple Valley, Minnesota, Young attended Eastview High School where she was named the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Metro Player of the Year.

An Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete regular, Young earned her bachelor's degree from Oregon in June of 2025. She is pursuing her master's degree in Belmont's Healthcare MBA program.

Karin's father, Geoff Young, is the current head men's tennis coach at Purdue and was the men's head coach at Minnesota for 15 years. Her older brother, Gavin, had an illustrious tennis career at Michigan.