EAU CLAIRE, Wisc. – Slippery Rock University Head Women's Basketball Coach Tanya Longo has been selected as an inductee into the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Hall of Fame, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire athletic department announced Tuesday.
Longo, The Rock's head coach since 2010, will be honored Sept. 28 as part of the Hall's seven-member Class of 2013.
As a UWEC student-athlete, the player known then as Tanya Bauer scored 1,022 points in four seasons, was named to the conference's five-player All-Defensive team three times and earned all-conference and honorable mention Kodak All-American honors as a senior.
Longo played in all 116 Blugold games, started 96 games and helped lead her team to a 98-18 overall record, four appearances in the NCAA Division III playoffs, two conference championships and a pair of conference runner-up finishes. She was a starter on the 1997 national runner-up team.
A 1998 UW-EC graduate as an education major, Longo put up her best offensive numbers as a senior, when she averaged 13.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. She set the school single season 3-point field goal percentage record (.463) that year as well and is tied for the school's single-game free throw percentage record, having hit all 12 attempts in one game against Stevens Point.
Longo was the tournament MVP in the eight-team First Virginia Bank Tip-Off Classic in Marymount, Virginia during the 1997-98 season.
Upon completion of her playing career, Longo served one season as a UWEC assistant coach, three seasons as an assistant coach at Division I Drake University, four seasons as the top assistant at D-1 Santa Clara University, one season as head coach at Division II Minnesota-Duluth and one season as an assistant at D-1 Southern Indiana University before being named as The Rock's head coach.
Longo and her husband Phil, the offensive coordinator for The Rock football team, are the parents of two daughters, Gianna and Macaria.
