Alex Lang
Assistant Athletic Director/
Sport Information Director/
EPASO Director
Phone: 5366
Email:
alang@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Alex Lang has been with the Office of Recreation, Intramurals and Athletics since 2002. He was named the Head Women’s Basketball Coach and Acting Sports Information Director at the youthful age of 24 after coming over as a women’s basketball assistant from City College of New York. Lang is presently the Assistant Director of Recreation, Intramurals and Athletics, Sports Information Director, Director of the EPASO Program and Head Women’s Basketball Coach. This fall he will take on a new role as Head Coach of the Women’s Cross Country team.
Lang has earned the reputation of a hard-working competitor who has worked extremely hard to improve the women’s basketball team as the head coach and to promote the athletics program in his role as Assistant Director and SID.
Under Lang, the women’s basketball team has improved greatly since he inherited the team in 2002. In 2008-2009, the tied a program record with 19 wins and set a new high with 9 conference victories. The team also reached the ECAC Tournament for the first time in the program's history. Lang was named CUNYAC "Coach of the Year" for leading the team to this record-breaking season, and in the process became the all-time winningest coach in the program's history, surpassing Cynthia Coles with 67 wins.
Lang is very proud of how the program has developed over the past seven years from a team with very few returning players, to a program that has graduated a multitude of student-athletes and has built a positive reputation throughout local basketball venues. The success of the program can be seen in the improvement of the level of returning players and recruits as well as the dedication of the assistants, team managers, alumni and fans. Lang has built a swagger in his team and excitement in the gymnasium that did not exist previously.
In two seasons at CCNY, Lang worked as the team’s top assistant, helping to recruit conference All-Stars Samantha Halpern and Kim Neos. He did a lot of individual work with the team’s guards, working vigorously with the CUNYAC’s all-time leading scorer Lauren Cargill and Swedish import Victoria Rautila. During Lang’s stay at City the team was one of the better teams in the conference. A year after his departure the team he helped mold got a bid to the ECAC Tournament.
In 2007, Lang was named Head Women's Cross Country Coach and the program immediately felt Lang's impact. After an improved but average season in 2007, the team had a tremendous season in 2008. With only one returning runner on the squad, the freshmen-laden team went out and won the first CUNYAC Championship in the program's history and the first for any Brooklyn college team since 1997. For the team's accomplishments, Lang was named CUNYAC "Coach of the Year".
As Sports Information Director, Lang has given the Brooklyn College campus and the local community a plethora of promotion, helping to increase interest in the Athletics program. This has resulted in larger numbers of students trying out for teams as well as increased attendance at home games and athletics sponsored events. Lang has tried to maximize school and local media’s involvement with the program, landing increased publicity for many of the teams and athletes. His work has helped to land full-page spreads in the Daily News, Amsterdam News, New York City Sporting News, Park Slope Courier, Bay News and New York Sports Day. He also got a television spot on the nationally televised “NCAA on Campus” program that is shown on Fox Sports Net, as well as local coverage on MSG, News 12, CUNY TV and BCAT.
In 2006, Lang was named Director of a new initiative in the Athletics Office, the Empowered Athletes Serving Others (EPASO) program. EPASO was created to have many functions, but mainly to see that each student-athlete is getting more of a co-curricular education than they can get just by practicing and competing. Under Lang’s guidance, the program has been responsible for some great achievements in its first year. EPASO has worked to more closely monitor each student-athlete’s academic progress and counsel those who are in need of help. Study halls, tutoring, monitoring of attendance and advisement are tools that have been used in the program. Lang also coordinated two EPASO-sponsored workshops for student-athletes. One was a Career and Internships Workshop in conjunction with the Brooklyn College Magner Center, and the other was a Leadership and Mental Skills Workshop that featured guest speaker, Spencer Wood, President of Icebox Athlete. Both workshops were a great success.
Lang is a member of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and CUNYAC Conference Captain. He has worked many local camps, including the Geno Auriemma Basketball Camp at the University of Connecticut. He began his coaching career when he was in high school when he helped his father, Robert Lang, coach a boy’s junior high school team, Northview Tech, in East Harlem.
A Bronx native, Lang graduated from Albany State with a B.A. in English Literature after transferring from Lehman College where he played under coach Joe Meade. Lang currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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