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The Highlanders have earned four All-Big West honors with Langston on the sidelines, most recently finishing third in Big West play last season after being picked 10th.

In his first year at UCR, Langston helped Jordan Webster earn the program's second Big West All-Freshman honor in three years. He also helped Keilanei Cooper earn UCR's 14th all-conference selection since 2014-15. Langston helped guide Webster to a second All-Big West honor in 2022-23.

Prior to UCR, Langston and former Highlander assistant Taylor High helped guide six student-athletes to All-WAC team honors at Grand Canyon, including a WAC Freshman of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.

Prior to coaching under Nicole Powell at GCU, Langston coached in the Big West at Hawai'i, where he worked on player development, scouting and both offensive and defensive strategies. At Hawai'i, the team maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.42 while Langston developed a First Team All-Big West student-athlete and landed another on the Big West All-Freshman Team.

Prior to Hawai'i, Langston coached five seasons at West Campus High School in Sacramento, where the Warriors won five consecutive league titles and reached the state tournament three times. He is the founder of the Evolution Skills Academy and helped develop two student-athletes ranked on the ESPNW Top 100 prospects list.

Smith was named head coach for the Gators in August of 2018 and led the program for the past six seasons. During her tenure she took SFSU to the post season for the first time in over a decade, developed eight all-conference players and her teams set numerous team and individual records.

In her first season with the Gators, Smith led SFSU to its most victories since 2015-16, the most CCAA wins since the 2013-14 and the first postseason berth since 2013. Her ten wins were the third-most by a first-year head coach in program history.

Prior to joining the Gators, Smith spent two years at the University of San Francisco, serving as the top assistant coach for Head Coach Molly Goodenbour. Before joining USF, Smith was an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator at Southern Oregon University where she helped the Raiders to a 33-2 record and an appearance in the NAIA Division II championship game.

Before her appointment at Southern Oregon, Smith served as an assistant on Goodenbour's staff at Cal State-Dominguez Hills for two seasons (2013-15). She helped the Toros compile a 46-17 record, which included the 2015 CCAA regular season and conference tournament championships along with berths into the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Division II Championship Tournament.

Smith began her coaching career at her alma mater Chico State where she served as an assistant coach for the 2012-13 season. That season the Wildcats reached the CCAA Tournament Championship and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division II Championship.

A 2013 graduate of Chico State, Smith was a four-year standout on the basketball team and ended her career as the school's all-time leader in games played. She also ranked sixth all-time in scoring, third in assists, fourth in free throws made, fifth in steals and ninth in three-pointers made.

A native of Sacramento, Smith attended Sheldon High School where she was a two-time All-Delta League selection.

In her first year with UC Riverside, Huth helped lead the Highlanders to their best single-season turnaround in program history and second best in the Big West in 10 years, as well as their first postseason appearance since 2016-17.

Huth comes to UCR from Washington, where she served as the program's video coordinator.

The Paramount, Calif. native was a two-time Big West Defensive Player of the Year, two-time All-Big West Honorable Mention and two-time Big West Player of the Week at Long Beach State.

Murray comes to the Highlanders from San Diego State where she was an assistant coach focusing on on-court player development, scouting and recruiting. Last season, she helped guide the Aztecs to a 23-11 record and their first appearance in the Mountain West Championship Game since 2013. Along the way she had two players selected to the First Team All-Mountain West.

She began her playing career for the Aztecs and set the single season record for most three-pointers (81) and was named to the All Mountain West Freshman Team. Murray moved on to Texas Tech and while playing for the Red Raiders she set a single game record hitting eight threes.

After graduating from Texas Tech, Murray attended Syracuse to earn her Master’s and finish her playing career. While competing for the Orange, she was named team captain, started every game and scored her 1,000 career point in December of 2021. Additionally, Murray was named to the All ACC Academic Team and the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.

She played professionally overseas in Luxembourg for Amicale Steesel in the LBBL League where she averaged 14 ppg.

Murray attended Saint Mary’s High School in Stockton, Calif., where she was the 30th ranked guard in the state and was a 1,000 point scorer. She started all four years for the Rams and won the CIF Open Division state championship during her tenure. Named team captain her senior year, Murray was also selected to three Cal-Hi Sports Teams during her high school career.

Her younger brother, Nick, plays football at the University of San Diego.