Saint Louis women’s basketball head coach Lisa Stone announced the addition of Brittany Lange to the staff as assistant coach for the upcoming season.
Lange comes to SLU with seven years of head coaching experience, including one as the youngest Division I basketball head coach in 2013 at age 26 for the Omaha Mavericks.
“It is my pleasure to welcome Brittany Lange to our Billiken family,” Stone said. “Brittany is a highly experienced and adaptable leader who has achieved success in all roles of a Division I basketball program.”
“Saint Louis and its women’s basketball program have an impeccable reputation,” Lange said. “Coach Stone is one of the best in our business, and I couldn’t be more excited to work alongside her and the rest of the staff. I’m grateful for the opportunity and thrilled about the vision of the program.”
“Brittany is a proven recruiter who takes initiative and has a broad lens to help elevate the game and the program and its members,” Stone said. “She shares our vision, values and expectations for success both on and off the court. We’re super excited to have Brittany join our team, and she will make an immediate impact in all areas of our program.”
Lange joins SLU’s staff after a brief stint serving as director of strategies and player development at Grand Canyon University (GCU) since April 2020.
Prior to GCU, Lange was the head coach at the University of Nebraska Omaha for seven seasons (2013-2020). She was at Omaha for the start of its Division I era, leading the Mavericks to their first 80 wins at the top level.
Throughout her Maverick coaching career, Lange had guided six players to a total of 11 All-Summit honors, including a Summit League Defensive Player of the Year, in addition to two CoSIDA Academic All-America honorees.
Lange originally joined the Mavericks in the 2011-12 season as director of basketball operations, after spending the previous year as a graduate assistant at St. Edward’s in Austin, Texas.
She began her collegiate playing career at Creighton in the 2005-06 season before transferring to Iowa State. As a Cyclone, she played guard on four NCAA tournament teams with an overall record of 98-37.
Following her playing career Lange spent two seasons (2008-10) working on head coach Bill Fennelly’s Iowa State staff, assisting the team to both Elite Eight (2009) and Sweet 16 (2010) runs.
A native of Sac City, Iowa, Lange earned her degree in kinesiology from Iowa State.
Lange joins Kerri McMahan (director of basketball operations) and Hailey Diestelkamp (graduate student manager) as this season’s additions to the Billikens staff.
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