The Longwood Lancers women’s basketball team faced a vital two game homestand in which they defeated the Winthrop Eagles 100-79. Their next game was even more crucial, in a battle with likewise 4-0 Big South team, the High Point Panthers. The visitors took down the Lancers 68-54 using a dominant third ...
The Longwood Lancers men’s soccer team saw its 2025 season come to a disappointing end, falling just short of the Big South tournament despite high preseason expectations. Ranked third in the Big South’s preseason poll, Longwood finished tied for sixth out of eight teams. The team ended the season ...
To start the 2025-26 season, Longwood’s women’s basketball sits at a record of 3-1. The Lancers dominated the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 80-42 in one of their most comprehensive defensive performances against DI opposition in recent seasons. They forced 30 turnovers and grabbed 50 total rebounds ...
Longwood men’s basketball has a familiar face in a new place for the 2025-26 home opener. First-year head coach Ronnie Thomas began his head coaching career with a dominant win over Mary Baldwin, where nearly every single player scored in a glass-cleaning and rim-rocking display the Joan Perry ...
For the Longwood Lancers women’s soccer team, their non-conference games produced up-and-down results and performances. The Lancers won three of their four opening home matches to begin the campaign while scoring 12 goals in that stretch combined. However, a run of defeats and ties against tougher ...
The Longwood Lancers softball team saved some of their best regular season conference play for the end, rattling off six wins in their final seven Big South games to earn the second seed going into this week’s tournament. They will face USC Upstate Thursday, May 8 at 12 p.m., a team they swept on ...
During the summer of 2024, Longwood University signed the fifth-ever head coach of Longwood Baseball, Ray Noe. Noe came from Virginia Military Institute (VMI), where he rose from assistant to lead assistant and recruiting coordinator before taking the role at Longwood. Noe replaced former head coach ...
The Longwood men’s and women’s tennis teams finished their seasons with seven regular season wins each. The men’s team won a number of close victories, including a 4-3 win over Presbyterian and a sudden death victory of the same score over the University of Richmond. The women’s team did not ...
On April 1, 2025, Longwood Men’s Basketball forward Elijah Tucker elected to enter the transfer portal. However, two weeks later, on April 17, Longwood announced Tucker would return for his final year of eligibility. “What brought me back were the people. Coaching staff, professors, and the friends ...
Ronnie Thomas, an assistant coach on Griff Aldrich’s staff, has been named as the next head coach of Longwood men’s basketball. The architect of two NCAA tournament appearances and three consecutive 20-win seasons in seven years with Longwood, Aldrich accepted the associate head coach position at ...
The Longwood Lancers women’s basketball team fell short of winning the Big South tournament and securing a bid to the NCAA tournament. However, they still participated in the Women's National Invitational Tournament, their first time in the postseason since their only NCAA tournament appearance in ...
Longwood women’s basketball lost in devastating fashion to High Point on March 9, 2025 in the Big South Championship game in Johnson City, Tennessee. A true underdog story, after finishing seventh in the Big South the season prior, the Lancers were agonizingly close to the NCAA tournament. The ...
Longwood women’s basketball recorded a historic win in Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tennessee on Saturday, March 8, defeating Radford 73-65. Four players scored double figures in an close win to secure their spot in the Big South championship game against High Point. The Longwood ...
Longwood men’s basketball battled back from deep adversity in their Big South Tournament quarterfinal game against Winthrop on March 8, but the initial deficit proved too big for the Lancers. Sophomore guard Colby Garland’s season-high 24 points were not enough to mount the improbable comeback. The ...
The Longwood Lancers women’s basketball team rolled past USC Upstate on March 7 at the Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tennessee for their first Big South tournament win since their championship run in 2022. The Lancers held the Spartans to under 24% from the field in a smothering defensive ...
The Longwood Lancers men’s basketball team lost a tension-packed game against in-state rivals Radford on Saturday, February 8. A shot with just two seconds remaining gave the visiting Highlanders the victory stunning the sold out crowd. Longwood men’s basketball entered the game after losing ...
With half of conference play in the books, Longwood women’s basketball has roared out of the gate to their best start since joining the Big South in 2012. With a 7-1 record entering February, the Lancers have already secured victories over last year’s regular season champions, High Point, and the ...
Longwood’s baseball team held their annual ‘Spooky Slugfest’ on Thursday, October 24 – putting on their silliest costumes for a scrimmage game at Buddy Bolding Stadium. Partnering with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), the team put together an event with plenty of activities ...
Longwood’s 2024 women’s soccer season is in full swing and with it has come a tough non-conference schedule. While being tested, the Lancers prepared for Big South play with a rigorous schedule that included the likes of Liberty and Appalachian State. Despite the challenges, Longwood athletes have ...
Coming off a 4-14 record for the 2023 season, Longwood Lancers Field Hockey had a lot to prove heading into 2024. They began their season at The G.A.M.E., and edged out an exciting victory during the last seconds of regulation versus the Davidson Wildcats. In the team’s first game of the year, they ...
