Jazmyn Simmons is in her second season as director of basketball operations for the Longwood women's basketball team in 2025-26.
Simmons helped the Lancers to a successful season in 2024-25, finishing 22-12 overall after advancing to the Big South Conference championship game and earning a berth in the Triple Crown Sports Postseason WNIT. Longwood earned 20 wins for just the second time at the Division I level and orchestrated a 13-win turnaround from 2023-24, thanks, in part, to an eight-game winning streak from Dec. 18 to Jan. 22. Longwood posted a 9-5 record in regular-season non-conference play, the school's best since the 1987-88 season. Simmons was part of a staff that guided the team to victories in its initial six Big South games of the season, a program first. It was also the first time LU won its first six games in conference since 1999-00 when the Lancers where part of the NCAA Division II Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference.
Longwood did it by playing smothering defense, forcing 24.47 turnovers per game while swiping 13.5 steals per game, figures that were second and third, respectively, in all of Division I women's basketball. Senior guard Kiki McIntyre earned Big South Defensive Player of the Year honors and became the program's all-time steals leader for a single season, collecting 130.
At season's end, head coach Lang-Montgomery was named Big South Coach of the Year, another first in Longwood women's basketball history.
Simmons, a two-time graduate of Florida, spent the 2022-24 as a graduate assistant for the Gators after being a student manager since 2019. She provided support for UF women's basketball squads that advanced to the postseason four times, including the 2022 NCAA tournament and WNIT in both 2023 and 2021.
"I'm excited to have a fellow Florida Gator on staff," Lang-Montgomery said upon her hire. "I was fortunate to work alongside Jazmyn when I was an assistant coach at Florida. As a student manager, she had a strong work ethic and I knew I would want her on my staff one day. Jazz's attention to detail and her organizational skills will be an asset to our program. She will take over some of the administrative tasks our assistant coaches have had in the past and she will also be a great role model for our student-athletes."
"I am truly grateful for the opportunity to join coach Erika and the Longwood Lancers in Virginia," said Simmons. "This program has a bright future ahead.
"Meeting coach Erika at the University of Florida in 2019 was the start of a great journey and I am excited to take it to another level," Simmons continued. "I am thankful for [director of basketball operations] Serena Lamar and the staff at Florida women's basketball for pushing me throughout my college career to achieve this new position.
"I look forward to using my knowledge, skills and experience to be an asset to the program, but I am also eager to continue learning. I can't wait to get to work. Go Lancers."
Simmons holds a bachelor's degree in health science (2022) and master's degree in sport management (2024) from Florida.
