Rachel Balzer has been elevated to assistant women’s basketball coach, Longwood head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery announced Wednesday. Entering her second season on staff in Farmville, Balzer had been the Lancers’ Director of Basketball Operations and Player Development since the summer of 2023. In her first season at Longwood, Balzer coached two All-Big South performers while helping guide forward Otaifo Esenabhalu to
Longwood tabs Lang-Montgomery as new WBB Head Coach
Erika Lang-Montgomery has been successful at every stop in her career: as a player in the Southeastern Conference, in a decade as a Division II head coach, and as a Division I assistant at multiple Power 5 programs – most recently the University of Florida, where she helped lead a program that surged to a Top
Navy’s Rebecca Tillett to Lead Longwood Women’s Basketball
Growing up in a family full of coaches and educators, Rebecca Nemerow Tillett was all but predestined to become one herself. Now Tillett, who is coming off back-to-back 20-win seasons as associate head coach at Navy, will continue her rapid ascent up the college coaching ranks by taking over as Longwood University’s head women’s basketball