Landis F. McCoy is entering his fourth season in Farmville in 2025-26 following time at several stops across multiple levels, including being hired as the youngest head coach ever when he helmed the Mainland High School program for a decade, earning a coach-of-the-year nod in the process. In addition, he led Johnson University to an NAIA national tournament.
McCoy has helped Longwood to first-round byes in the Big South tournament in each of his three seasons on bench. McCoy has coached Longwood to 25 conference victories and helped the team to at least six per season for the fourth, fifth and sixth times in the school's Big South era.
McCoy works with Longwood’s post players on a daily basis, while having a hand in practice planning, skill development and scouting the opposition.
McCoy helped lead 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. McCoy 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.
Longwood was 21st nationally in steals per game, averaging 10.7. Individually, guard Kiki McIntyre finished 20th and 29th in steals per game (2.77) and total steals (83), respectively. Additionally, forward Otaifo Esenabhalu was twice named Big South Freshman of the Week while also earning a spot on the league's all-freshman team.
Further, graduate student Anne-Hamilton LeRoy became the Lancers' all-time leader in career free throw made with 386. LeRoy also finished eighth in points scored at Longwood at 1,465.
In McCoy’s first year, both LeRoy and Adriana Shipp-Davis were named to the 2023 All-Big South Second Team following a season that saw them both average career highs in nearly every major statistical category.
The Lancers’ offense ranked fourth in the conference during Big South play during the 2022-23 season, averaging 64.8 points per game. In addition, Longwood was number one in free throw percentage in the conference with a .745% mark in Big South play.
The Lancers enjoyed many season-highlights, including LeRoy surpassing 1,000 career points with Longwood, a 21-point comeback victory against Presbyterian on Alumni Weekend, and a gutsy road win over UNC Asheville in the final regular season game of the season to ensure the first-round bye.
Most recently, McCoy was an assistant at Daytona State. In addition, he served as the Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Central Florida Mix, which saw him oversee all aspects of the organization from building the roster to player contracts, player development and head coaching and scouting duties.
While he began his coaching career while still pursuing his undergraduate degree at Bethune-Cookman, McCoy was hired as the head coach at Mainland High School in 2008 at the age of 23. Nine years later, he won 140 games and was named the Daytona Beach News-Journal Coach of the Year while leading the team two a pair of conference championships and six state playoff appearances.
He then transitioned to the collegiate level where he served as an assistant coach for NCAA Division II Shorter before moving to Johnson. At Johnson, he spent one season as an assistant before taking the helm in 2019-20.
During that 2019-20 season, he led the Suns to the 2020 South Region Championship, the program’s first region title in program history, on the strength of a 15-win campaign that was the most in school history. He directed the top defensive team in the nation, and his team was seeded fifth heading into the National Christian College Athletic Association D-II tournament prior to the cancellation of the event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the team’s overall GPA and graduation rate both increased.
Throughout his career, McCoy has focused on building relationships and motivating young people to achieve at a high level, and he has worked a variety of camps throughout the state of Florida that speak to that desire.
He obtained his Bachelors of Science in Educational Studies from Bethune-Cookman in in 2007, graduating with honors. McCoy earned a master degree in Sports Administration with a concentration in Educational Leadership from Southeastern Oklahoma State in 2024. He is happily married to his wife Kameka J. McCoy, and he says God has blessed him with two bundles of joy in his son, Karson, and daughter, Laci.
