He previously served as an assistant for the Temple Owls men's basketball team for five seasons under Fran Dunphy.
From 1996 to 2000, Langel attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he starred on the Quaker basketball team under coach Fran Dunphy.
He began his professional career playing for Chene BC in Switzerland and ALM Evreux Basket in the France Pro A league.
In 2001, Langel worked out in the Philadelphia 76ers summer camp before Mitteldeutscher BC and Phoenix Hagen in German Bundesliga I came calling.
The following season, Penn finished with an identical record and earned a berth to the 2006 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
[8] The 2010–11 team finished with a 29–6 record overall and 14–2 in the Atlantic 10 and defeated Penn State in the NCAA tournament round of 64 as Juan Fernandez hit an off balance shot with less than a second remaining to lift the Owls, 66–64.
[11] When he landed there, he found out that Fernandez was practicing with the Argentine national team hundreds of miles away, and the taxi service would cost $1,000.
[10] With the next flight arriving the following morning, Langel rented a compact car and drove along a two-lane road for almost 10 hours.
[18] In 2022, Langel was named as a training camp assistant for the USA Basketball men's U18 national team, under Colorado head coach Tad Boyle.
[21] At Penn, he was a member of the Friars Senior Society and the University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 2000.