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Women’s college basketball coach wears Kamala Harris jersey in first game of tenure after losing election
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Women’s college basketball coach wears Kamala Harris jersey in first game of tenure after losing election

Tulane women’s basketball Coach Ashley Langford wore a Kamala Harris jersey during her team’s season-opening loss to Nicholls State on Thursday.

Langford wore the shirt during a broadcast on Fubo, and screenshots of it quickly went viral through social networks.

Langford, 37, is in his first season as Tulane’s head coach. She played for the program from 2005 to 2009. She was a four-year starting point guard and set the program record for most career assists (722), assists per game (6.0), games started ( 121) and minutes played (4,162). .

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City skyline with Bayou St. John in the foreground August 25, 2006, in New Orleans. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Freshman year at Tulane was the same year Hurricane Katrina it devastated New Orleans and the surrounding community. Langford and her teammates were transferred for the fall 2005 semester and had to take their classes at Texas Tech University.

On December 18, 2005, Tulane women’s basketball became the first team to resume play in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. After finally taking the court, Langford went on to lead the Green Wave to four straight winning seasons, a regular season title in 2006-07 and the 2007 WNIT.

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Ashley Langford

Tulane University head coach Ashley Langford poses for a photo during American Athletic Conference basketball media day at the Westin Irving Convention Center in Las Colinas, Oct. 13, 2024, in Irving, Texas. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

She landed her first head coaching job with Stony Brook, where she went 69–24 (.742) over three seasons.

She will look to get her first win as the head coach of her alma mater on Tuesday against Missouri.

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Clothing displaying political messages in sports became a controversial topic during the recent election cycle. San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa threw down a MAGA hat during a postgame interview on Oct. 27.

Other figures in women’s basketball and women’s sports expressed their disappointment at Harris’ loss to Trump, including WNBA star Angel Reese and Olympic gymnastics star Simone Biles.

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