*Reporting source: Seattle University Magazine, Kiyomi Kishaba, March 23, 2026*

Seattle basketball history is often told through the largest stages: the SuperSonics, the Storm and the NCAA runs that put the city on national television. Andre Lang’s 2026 induction into the Seattle University Athletics Hall of Fame is a reminder that the local game also rests on players whose connection to the city lasts long past their final college possession.

The case for Lang is concrete. Seattle University credits the 1991–95 Redhawk with 118 games, a 13.9-point career average and 4.5 assists per game. He remains the program’s career steals leader with 229. The school also lists him fourth in career assists, at 528; seventh in points, at 1,642; and eighth in made three-pointers, at 150.

Those figures explain the Hall of Fame honor. His path to Seattle U, and his work after it, explain why it reads as a Seattle legacy story rather than a simple record-book update.

## A Seattle player before he was a Redhawk

Seattle University Magazine calls Lang a “Seattle kid, through and through.” He grew up near Madrona and attended Bishop O’Dea High School, four blocks from the Seattle U campus. That geography gives the recognition an unusually local shape: a player developed in the city, playing his college ball in the city, and now working and mentoring here.

Lang said the chance to play for Al Hairston helped determine his college choice. Hairston, the longtime Garfield High School coach, had been hired to lead the Redhawks. Lang also named Carl Ervin and Greg Gill as examples. It is one player’s account, not a sweeping explanation of Seattle recruiting in that era. Still, it shows how the city’s high-school and college basketball circles intersected.

The résumé was substantial. Seattle U says Lang was a NAIA Pacific Northwest Region All-Star, Little All-Northwest Third Team choice and NAIA Honorable Mention All-American in both 1994 and 1995. He also received preseason NAIA All-American recognition in 1995.

His record shows range. The 1.9 career steals average ranks fourth in school history, while his assist total ranks fourth. Add the points and threes, and the evidence is of a guard who contributed as a scorer, creator and defender rather than in one narrow role.

## A record with useful limits

First place in a school’s career steals list is a clear historical marker. It establishes that Lang recorded more takeaways than any other Seattle U player in the school’s ledger. It does not settle every cross-era comparison or tell the full value of every possession. The distinction matters: the record is strong enough without turning a Hall of Fame induction into an unsupported claim that he was the program’s best at every facet of basketball.

Seattle University’s Hall of Fame page independently lists Lang’s 2026 induction and repeats the principal statistics. The university’s alumni-awards event listing records him as a men’s basketball Hall of Fame honoree at the Feb. 27 ceremony. That confirms the award was presented, not merely announced.

## The career after the box score

Lang played two professional seasons in Bavaria after graduating, according to the magazine. He then returned to the Seattle area, worked as a Kent police officer and attended law school. The profile identifies him as an estate-planning and family-law attorney at Nunn Vhan & Lang, PLLC.

The continuity with basketball is equally notable. The magazine reports that Lang coaches his sons’ CYO teams, works with the Seattle Rotary Style AAU Program, serves on Seattle U’s Board of Regents and Athletics Hall of Fame Committee, and mentors Redhawk players on goal setting and life after college.

None of that makes him responsible for today’s program. It does give current players a direct connection to an earlier Seattle U era. For the present-day side of that picture, the recent [Seattle U exhibition win at Oregon](/article/seattle-u-beats-oregon-71-65-exhibition-october-2026) is the natural companion read. The Oregon result is current; Lang’s recognition supplies a longer view.

## A local legacy, properly measured

Hall of Fame stories can become soft-focus tributes when they avoid saying why a player belongs. Lang’s case does not require that treatment: a 1991–95 Seattle U career, a school-record 229 steals, top-10 standing in several major categories, NAIA honors and continuing work in Seattle basketball provide a verifiable foundation.

Lang told the magazine that joining a Hall with people he knew as local mentors brought things “full circle.” That is the right frame. The 2026 honor does not make one player the entire history of Seattle basketball. It recognizes a durable part of it: a local guard whose record remains visible and whose connection to the game did not end at graduation.

Source attribution: This article is based primarily on Kiyomi Kishaba’s March 23, 2026 Seattle University Magazine profile, “An Inspiring Basketball and Legal Career,” with the 2026 Hall of Fame status and award ceremony corroborated by official Seattle University Athletics and Office of Alumni Engagement pages. Seattle U’s institutional pages conflict on whether Lang’s JD class year is 2004 or 2005; that disputed detail is not used here.

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