Bio

Long is entering his seventh season as Head Women's Basketball Coach for the Lions.

In 2003, CCBC Catonsville Head Coach Randy Gregory gave Long a chance to coach college basketball as an assistant. In the middle of that season, Athletic Administrator Brian Farrell called on Rob to coach the women's team for the final seven games of the season.

The next year, CCBC restarted the women's team at Dundalk and the college hired Long, a move he considered to be a major leap of faith. Long committed himself to making sure the college would never regret that decision.

The Lions went 19-5 in the first year and held down national rankings for seven weeks. The team produced an NJCAA All-American candidate and three eventual CCBC Hall of Famers. The Lions have suffered only one losing season during Coach Long's six seasons and have won at least one play-off game in five consecutive years. He measures success by having his sophomores go on to four-year colleges and the Lions have done so at a very good rate.

After two very successful years as the colleges Head Women's Basketball Coach, Long accepted a job at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Long's team went to the NCAA Division III National Tournament in 2007, which was the first and only appearance for the school. However, after four years at Notre Dame, Long became homesick and accepted a job back home with CCBC.

When Rob was 22 years old, Henry Burch tricked him into coaching a church league for teenage boys. At 22, Long thought he was in the prime of his playing days and reluctantly continued coaching the team. Over two decades later, the love for coaching has never been stronger.

"It's where I belong," says Long. "College of Notre Dame taught me valuable lessons but I belong at CCBC."

Long considers CCBC to be home and so does his family, wife Yedda and children Robbie and Stephie. The players are family and the effort on the court indicates as much.