Alex Louin joined the Cavaliers as an assistant coach/director of operations on April 17, 2026.
Louin joins the Cavaliers following three seasons on Roussell’s staff as an assistant coach and operations director at Richmond. During that period, the Spiders captured a pair of Atlantic-10 regular season titles, the 2024 A10 Tournament championship, made three consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament including the program’s first tournament win in 2025.
Prior to joining the Spiders, she served as an assistant coach at UNC Wilmington during the 2022–23 season and previously worked as a player development coach with the Fordham men’s basketball program.
A native of Doylestown, Pa., Louin was a standout player at Villanova from 2014-2018 where she earned All-Big East honors in all four seasons. She scored 1,432 career points and ranks among Villanova’s top-20 in points, rebounds and assists. She led the Wildcats to three WNIT appearances and an NCAA Tournament berth in 2018, the program’s first in five years.
Louin continued her playing career professionally in Europe first with BBX Grengewald Hueschert in Luxembourg, where she was named First-Team All-Total League and hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to win the league championship in 2018. She later starred with Torpan Pojat (ToPo) in Finland, leading the league in scoring at 28 points per game, earning First-Team All-League and Foreign Player of the Year honors as the team’s only American player.
Louin earned her bachelor’s degree in economics and finance as well as a master’s degree in business administration from Villanova.