Langford announced staff changes for Tulane Green Wave women's basketball, headlined by a former team captain and internal promotions.
The Tulane Green Wave women’s basketball coaching staff will look a bit different next season. Green Wave head coach Ashley Langford welcomes home a Tulane alum with internal promotions that all promote continuity, familiarity, and program investment. Harlyn Wyatt, a 2019 graduate, will return Uptown as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Shyan Mwai will be promoted from assistant coach and video coordinator to solely an assistant coaching role in her third year. Johnny Flores will take on video coordinator responsibilities in his current role as a graduate assistant coach.
Wyatt played for Tulane for four seasons from 2015 to 2019, totaling nearly 700 points and 600 rebounds. She sits ninth in program history with 0.9 blocks per game and 110 career blocks. The team captain helped lead the Green Wave to two appearances in the WNIT. Wyatt will head back to New Orleans after spending three years with American rival Memphis Tigers as an assistant and recruiting coordinator. Her work with post players shone particularly in Alasia Smith, who she developed into a formidable defender with 405 career steals and 1,336 career rebounds. Smith earned American All-Conference Second Team and American All-Defensive Team recognition. In addition, Smith cultivated forward Tamya Smith, who made the American All-Freshman Team.
Wyatt was named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association 30 Under 30 honorees in March 2025, and Langford is excited for an alum to join the staff who knows “this league inside and out.”
Mwai joined the staff in 2024-25, coming with Langford from the Stony Brook Seawolves. She helped coach up two American Freshman of the Year winners and two All-Conference honorees in Sherese Pittman and Kyren Whittington. In fact, the only three honorees for the program on the American All-Newcomer Team have come when Mwai is on staff. It’s a promotion “well earned,” per Langford.
Flores has been with the program since 2021, with various roles as a practice player, manager, and graduate assistant coach. He’ll add on the video coordinator title as another Tulane graduate after heavily assisting Mwai with video coordination last season, earning him the promoted title for the 2026-27 campaign.
That will round out Langford’s staff as the team looks towards next season. She is bringing in a strong combination of familiarity with the program as both alums and current staff members, showing a path for upwards growth in the internal elevations, and proven experience in the American Conference league the team will look to compete at the top of next season.