Nike Girls Basketball Camp at Stony Brook University

Langford guided the Seawolves to an at-large berth into the WNIT, which marked its sixth appearance in a national postseason tournament and third in the WNIT during the program’s Division I era.

In her first season at the helm, Stony Brook picked up marquee wins over two Power Five opponents in Rutgers (53-44 on Nov. 16) and Washington State (69-62 on Dec. 19). The wins were the third and fourth over Power Five opponents in program history and it was the first time that the Seawolves beat two Power Five opponents in the same season.

The Seawolves earned votes in WBCA Top 25 and were ranked as high as No. 7 in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 during the stellar 2021-22 campaign.

Under Langford’s tutelage, Stony Brook’s offensive output increased by nearly nine points per game and the team had four student-athletes scoring in double figures and seven student-athletes increased their scoring from a season ago.

Langford had a pair of student-athletes earn All-Conference honors in her first season as India Pagan and Anastasia Warren took home All-Conference recognition. Warren claimed All-Conference First Team honors, while Pagan was tabbed to the All-Conference Second Team and All-Academic Team. Both Pagan (Second Team) and Warren (Third Team) were also recognized by the Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA).

In March, Langford was selected to the Advancement of Blacks In Sports (ABIS) Mid-Major Head Coaches Watch List. She was one of 11 women’s basketball head coaches in the nation to be tabbed to the Watch List.

In addition to their tremendous success on the court, Stony Brook also made strides in the classroom. The team accomplished an overall GPA of 3.185 for the 2021-22 academic year and received WBCA Academic Top 25 Special Mention.

Before coming to Long Island, Langford spent four seasons at James Madison. While at JMU, Langford helped lead a team that produced a 91-31 overall and 58-11 conference record as well as three CAA regular season titles.

Prior to the 2020-21 season at JMU, Langford was elevated from assistant coach to associate head coach. Langford recruited and coached 14 CAA All-Conference selections, one Player of the Year, two Rookies of the Year, one two-time Defensive Player of the Year, and the 28^thoverall pick in the 2020 WNBA draft.

Over the course of her coaching career, she has coached two WNBA Draft picks, 10 players playing professionally overseas, one Olympian, and three players competing for Puerto Rican Jr. National Team.

She also has served as an assistant coach at Old Dominion, Navy, Bucknell, and Denver.

Langford earned a bachelor’s degree in management and marketing from Tulane in 2009 and an MBA from Auburn in 2011.

Before her coaching career began, Langford was a standout point guard at Tulane from 2005-09. She remains the Green Wave’s career leader in assists (722) and assists per game (6.0). She graduated as the program’s leader in games started (119) and minutes played (4,162), and currently ranks second in those categories.

She was Conference USA’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year as a senior in addition to a three-time All-Conference selection. Langford was a member of C-USA’s All-Freshman Team in 2006.

Langford scored 1,047 points during her collegiate career and was inducted into the school’s athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.

In 2020-21, Moore helped lead the Stags to the No. 4 seed in the MAAC Tournament and an appearance in the semifinals. Over the course of her tenure at Fairfield, she coached five All-MAAC players including two-time All-MAAC First Team honoree Lou Lopez-Senechal and the 2020-21 MAAC Sixth Player of the Year Andrea Hernangomez.

Before her time as an assistant at Fairfield, Moore coached at Howard University, the University of New Haven, and Lafayette College. While at Howard, Moore coached Te’Shya Heslip who went on to be named the 2016 MEAC Player of the Year under her tutelage.

Moore spent the 2014-15 season at New Haven where she helped guide the Chargers to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight for the first time in nearly 30 years. That season, New Haven won 26 games and 16 of those wins came in Northeast-10 Conference play. The 16-conference wins were a school record.

Her first coaching role came at Lafayette where she spent three seasons. Moore was a member of the women’s basketball team at Fairfield during her collegiate career. Upon her graduation in 2009, she ranked fifth all-time in games played with 117. During her senior season, she tallied career-highs in points (236), assists (48), and steals (22).

In 2021-22, Vermont went 20-11, 13-5 America East and a made trip to the conference semifinals with Sawyer on staff. Coach Sawyer helped lead the team to its first 20-win season since the 2009-10 campaign.

Before his stint on staff at Vermont, Sawyer coached basketball in the Burlington, Vt. area since 2009 and joined the Catamounts after two years as the girls’ varsity coach at South Burlington High School. In his final season at South Burlington, the team posted a record of 15-7 and finished fourth in the entire state in Division I.

Sawyer previously served three years as an assistant coach at St. Michael’s College and was the varsity coach at Colchester High School from 2009-13.