Ashley Langford

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Ashley Langford
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Tulane
Conference AAC
Record0–0 (–)
Biographical details
Born (1987-03-13) March 13, 1987 (age 37)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Playing career
2005–2009 Tulane
Position(s) Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2009–2011 Auburn (GA)
2011–2012 Bucknell (assistant)
2012–2015 Denver (assistant)
2015–2016 Navy (assistant)
2016–2017 Old Dominion (assistant)
2017–2021 James Madison (associate)
2021–2024 Stony Brook
2024–present Tulane
Head coaching record
Overall69–24 (.742)
Tournaments1–1 (WBIT)
0–1 (WNIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • CAA regular season (2024)
Awards
  • CAA Coach of the Year (2024)

Ashley Brooke Langford (born March 13, 1987) [1] is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Tulane Green Wave women's basketball team. She previously was the head coach with the Stony Brook Seawolves women's basketball team.

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Early life

Langford was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was raised by her father Sterling and attended Central Dauphin High School for three years before transferring to Harrisburg High School for her senior year. She played on the Philadelphia Belles AAU team. [2]

Playing career

Langford played college basketball for the Tulane Green Wave from 2005 to 2009. She was a four-year starting point guard and set the program record for most career assists (722), assists per game (6.0), games started (121) and minutes played (4,162). [3] Her 722 assists are also the second most in Conference USA history. Langford led Tulane to a 2006–07 regular season title and an appearance in the 2007 WNIT. She finished her career with 1,047 points, graduating with the 17th-most points in program history. [1]

She graduated in 2009 with a double major in business management and marketing. [2]

Langford was inducted into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018. [4]

Coaching career

Langford began her coaching career as a graduate assistant for Auburn in 2009 while studying for her Master of Business Administration (MBA). [2] [5]

During the 2011–12 season, Langford was an assistant for Bucknell, working with the team's guards and coordinating the team's itinerary and travel plans. [2] From 2012 to 2015, Langford was an assistant for the Denver Pioneers, where she was the recruiting coordinator, offensive coordinator and guards coach. [6] She spent the 2015–16 season as an assistant for Navy [7] and the 2016–17 season as an Old Dominion assistant. [8]

Before the 2017–18 season, Langford joined Sean O'Regan's staff at James Madison. [9] In August 2020, she was promoted to associate head coach. [10] She served as acting head coach in January 2021 when O'Regan was out with COVID-19. [11]

On April 28, 2021, Langford was named the head coach of the Stony Brook Seawolves. [5] In Langford's first season, Stony Brook was banned from the America East tournament midseason in February 2022 due to an impending conference change to the Colonial Athletic Association. [12] She finished her first year with a 23–6 record and an appearance in the WNIT. [13] Langford's Seawolves made their CAA debut in her second year, and the team finished 18–13, losing to Northeastern in the conference quarterfinals. [14]

On September 25, 2023, Langford was extended by Stony Brook until 2028. [15] She won her 50th game on December 21, doing so in only 70 games, the fastest in program history. [16] Stony Brook won the CAA regular title in their second season as a member of the conference, ending the regular season 25–3 and 16–2 in conference. [17] [18]

On April 2, 2024, Langford was hired as the head coach for her alma mater Tulane, replacing her former coach Lisa Stockton after 30 years. Langford went 69–24 (.742) in three seasons at Stony Brook. [19]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Stony Brook (America East)(2021–2022)
2021–22 Stony Brook 23–614–42nd WNIT First Round
Stony Brook (CAA)(2022–2024)
2022–23 Stony Brook 18–1311–76th
2023–24 Stony Brook 28–516–21st WBIT Second Round
Stony Brook:69–24 (.742)41–13 (.759)
Tulane (American)(2024–present)
2024–25 Tulane 0–00–0
Tulane:0–0 (–)0–0 (–)
Total:69–24 (.742)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

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