Houston Christian Women's Basketball Camps
Drew Long | Head Coach
Drew Long was announced as the sixth head women's basketball coach in HCU history on April 2, 2025.
Long came to HCU following four years as the head women’s coach at McMurry, in Abilene, Texas, where he engineered a turnaround from a 2-16 overall record the year prior to his arrival to a 23-6 overall record and a trip to the NCAA Division III Sweet 16 in 2024-25. His 2024-25 team posted the third-best record in program history. During his tenure, Long’s McMurry teams showed marked improvement each season as he finished his four years in Abilene with a 54-48 record.
In 2024-25, Long was named D3Hoops.com Region Coach of the Year while guiding Emily Holland to honorable mention all-America honors, all-region honors and a first team all-SCAC selection. Holland was also selected to participate in the 2025 D3 All-Star Game. In 2023-24, he was named ASC Coach of the Year while coaching the ASC Player of the Year.
Prior to taking the head coaching job at McMurry, Long worked in upper administration at Abilene Christian. He began as the Wildcats’ Associate AD or Internal Operations before serving as Interim Director of Athletics for two months in 2018. Long was then named Deputy Director of Athletics at ACU, a role he held for three years. As the ACU Deputy AD, he was the sport supervisor for men’s basketball, women’s soccer and golf, was responsible for all athletic facility maintenance and construction and oversaw all internal operations staff, among other duties.
Before making the move to Abilene, he spent just over a year as the head boys basketball coach at Faith West Academy in Katy, also serving as Director of Athletics for 10 months. In his one season at Faith West he led the team to the TAPPS 3A state semifinals while coaching a pair of all-state honorees.
Long spent five seasons on staff as a men’s assistant coach at the United States Air Force Academy from 2010 until 2015 with the Falcons twice reaching the second round of the CIT. He spent three seasons on staff as an assistant former NBA head coach Jeff Bzdelik at Colorado from 2007-10 after one year as an assistant coach at Southwestern University.
A native Houstonian, Long played for coach Bill Carmody at Northwestern for two seasons before earning a bachelor of science degree in communications from NU in 2004. He also earned a master of science in coaching administration from Concordia University – Irvine in 2010.