| Tamika Williams-Jeter is headed back to Division I for the head job at Dayton after winning the NCAC title with nearby Wittenberg. Wittenberg athletics file photo |
This is where we now track all the changes in Division III head women's basketball coaching positions that occur from the end of the 2021-22 season to the start of the next one. We'll provide links to the news stories posted on schools' websites so you can go deeper into the moves that interest you, plus we have the same tracker for the men's changes.
If you see anything amiss, please email us at Gordon.Mann@d3sports.com.
- Prior years' coaching carousels: 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012
| School | Last Coach |
Replaced |
Last position | Notes |
| Arcadia | Rose Katz-Gobeli | Jackie Hartzell | Head coach at Division II University of the Sciences | Hartzell made five trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament at USciences, which eliminated athletics when it merged with Division I St. Joseph's (Pa.). |
| Beloit | Gloria Bradley | Natalie Miller | Assistant at NAIA Concordia (Mich.) | Miller was previously the recruiting and operations assistant at Texas-Dallas. |
| Bethany | Brian Sansom | Mikayla Lopez | Assistant at Buena Vista | Sansom stepped down as coach when he was named the College's new Athletic Director. |
| Bowdoin | Sacha Santimano | Megan Phelps | Assistant at Division I Dartmouth | Phelps played and coached under Adrienne Shibles at Bowdoin and then joined her staff at Dartmouth. |
| Bridgewater (Va.) | Jason Asbell | Stephanie Flamini | Associate AD at Division I Hartford |
Flamini went 287-171 in 18 seasons as the head coach at ODAC foe Guilford. |
| Cairn | Miriam Hartzler | Allen Kuiper | Assistant at Division II Saint Augustine's (N.C.) |
Kuiper was an assistant to Dawn Henderson at TCNJ in 2016. |
| Caltech | Bridgette Reyes | Annie Tarakchian | Assistant at Cal Lutheran | Tarakchian played collegiately at Princeton and then professionally in Belgium and Switzerland. |
| CCNY | Tian Tang | Varrell Eddie |
Head coach at SUNY- |
Eddie went 34-91 in five seasons at SUNY-Purchase. |
| Central | Joe Steinkamp | Moran Lonning | Assistant coach at Simpson | Lonning's late father Greg was the head wrestling coach for the Dutch from 1986-1989. She was an All-American at Luther in 2016. |
| Clark | Pat Glispin | Bridgette Reyes | Head coach at Caltech | Reyes went 30-70 in five seasons at Caltech, but that includes the programs' only two seasons with double-digit wins. |
| Clarks Summit | Rick Harrison | Marvin Evans | Assistant coach at Franklin & Marshall | Evans was a second-team All-Northeast Region as a senior in 2004. |
| Crown | Leah Szabla | Bridgeport Tusler | Men's assistant at Macalester | Tusler played four seasons of basketball and football at Bethel. |
| Defiance | Allan King, Jr. | Rod Hersha (Interim) |
High school girls' basketball coach |
Hersha takes over a Defiance team coming off its first winning season since 2013. |
| Denison | Sara Lee | Maureen Hirt | Assistant at Oberlin | Lee finishes her coaching career with 503 victories in women's basketball and 386 more in volleyball. |
| Goucher | Andrea Preston | Joya Whittington | Head coach at NJCAA Lackawanna (Pa.) College |
Whittington played at Division II Seton Hill in Greensburg, Pa. |
| FDU-Florham | Reggie Daniels | Van Johnson |
Head coach at St. |
Johnson went 4-18 at St. Elizabeth as the Eagles head coach. |
| Finlandia |
Mariah LaPointe- |
Brandi Haineault | Assistant coach at Finlandia | Haineault played three seasons (2000-02) for the Lions. |
| Franklin |
Dana Haggenjos |
Jessica Johnson | Assistant at NAIA Marian (Ind.) |
Johnson returns to lead her alma mater after coaching at the college and high school levels in Indiana. |
| Haverford | Stephanie Carideo | Grace Elliott | Head coach at Kenyon | Elliott went 13-38 in the last two seasons at Kenyon (2021-22) and Rosemont (2019-20). |
| Howard Payne | Rachel Janzen | Presley Fisk | Unknown | Presley (McKethan) Fisk played four seasons for HPU and was an admissions counselor at the University in 2020-2021. |
| Kenyon | Grace Elliott | Mary Corbett | Assistant at Otterbein | Corbett started her collegiate playing career at Ohio Wesleyan and then transferred to Otterbein, graduating in 2015. |
| LeTourneau | Cassi Rozanski | Scot MacAllister | Head coach at USCAA Saint Mary-of-the-Woods | MacAllister was an assistant for six seasons at Centre. |
| Maranatha Baptist |
Clayton Morrison | Paul Brown | High School Athletic Director | Brown was was the Athletic Director and head boys' basketball coach at Tri-City Christian Academy in Chandler, Arizona. |
| Marian | Kristen Rogers | Josh Ward | Assistant at Albion | Ward was previously head coach at SUNY-Canton where he went 13-38 in two seasons. |
| Medaille | Kelly Broderick | Nick Moore |
Assistant at Division I |
Moore spent time on the coaching staff at Division I Canisius which is also in Upstate New York. |
| Mount St. Joseph |
Dan Benjamin | Maisie Elston | Assistant at NAIA Indiana U. East |
Elston spent five years at Earlham, including as interim head coach in February 2021. |
| Mount St. Vincent |
Phil Stern | Maria Nardulli | Assistant at Mount St. Vincent |
Nardulli is also a full-time middle school physical education teacher and CMSV's head cross country coach |
| Muskingum | Erin Eaton | Kelly Broderick | Head coach at Medaille | Broderick went 24-53 in four seasons at Medaille. |
|
Nebraska |
Sam Dixon | Tyler Bullock (Interim) |
Assistant at Division I Nebraska-Omaha |
Bullock played at Nebraska-Omaha and then professionally in London. |
|
North Central (Minn.) |
Paul Brunner | Leah Szabla | Head coach at Crown | Szabla went 7-15, 3-11 in the UMAC in her lone season at conference rival Crown. |
|
Northland |
Daryle Tucker | Lisa Phillips | Assistant at Division II Palm Beach Atlantic | The average temperature in Palm Beach in December is 69 degrees. The average temperature in Ashland, Wisconsin in December is 19 degrees. |
| North Park | Amanda Crockett | Annie Shain | Assistant at North Park | Shain played for four years and worked as an assistant coach for five years at North Park. |
| Pacific Lutheran | GC Hilburn | Lee Aduddell | Assistant at Division I Colgate | Aduddell started her coaching career as an assistant at Trinity (Texas) for three seasons. |
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Penn State- |
Monique Boykins | Megan Fox | Head coach at NJCAA Delaware Technical Community College | Fox earned her undergrad degree from Arcadia and coached at former D3 school Wesley. |
| Pitt.-Greensburg | Kesley Oddis | Darien Lantz | Assistant at Thiel | Oddis moved into another job at UPG after going 20-6 in her lone season as head coach. |
| Pratt | Wilfredo Rivera | Alyssa Parsons (Interim) |
Assistant at Pratt | Parsons, who has her MBA and her JD degrees, was a three-time captain at Division I Rider. |
| Rutgers- Camden |
Annette Reiter | TBD | ||
| Rutgers- Newark |
Ashley Cieplicki | Stacey Townsend | NBA Replay Operator & High school teacher |
Townsend previously coached at Essex County College, the community college in Newark, N.J. |
| Salem | Quntashea Lewis | TBD | ||
| Scranton | Nick DiPillo | Ben O'Brien | High school girls' basketball coach | O'Brien was the head coach at nearby Dunmore (Pa.) High School for 14 seasons. |
| Sewanee | Tracey Braden | Brody Curry | Assistant men's coach Sewanee |
Curry played four years at Sewanee and was an All-South region selection as senior in 2017. |
| St. Elizabeth | Van Johnson | Pat Dennis | Adjunct professor at St. Elizabeth & Kean |
Dennis, who played basketball for the Eagles, is also the College's cross country. Trey Bailey will be the Co-Head Coach. |
| Sul Ross State |
Katie Novak | E.J. Lee Smith | High school girls' baskeball coach | Lee played semiprofessional basketball in South Korea, then became an All-American at UL-Monroe where she eventually had a long coaching career. |
| SUNY-Purchase | Varrell Eddie | Stephen Bower | Assistant at Division II New Haven |
Bower, who was previously an assistant at three Division III schools, will be the Panthers' first full-time WBB coach. |
| Texas-Dallas | Polly Thomason | Joe Shotland | Assistant at Trinity (Texas) | Thomason was named head coach at University of Hartford which is transitioning from DI to DIII. |
| Thomas | Emily Cummins | Jason Coleman | Head coach at USCAA Maine-Augusta | Coleman takes over a Terriers' program that has not had a winning season since 2006-07. |
| UW-River Falls | Blake Dudonis | Shelby Lyman (Interim) |
Assistant at UW-River Falls | Dudonis will join the coaching staff for his wife who is the new head coach at Division I Fairfield. |
| UW-Stevens Point |
Shirley Egner | Matt Hockett | Head coach of UW-Stevens Point women's tennis team | Egner won 572 games in 33 seasons, including the 2002 national title with the Pointers. Hockett was previously an assistant coach for men's basketball at UWSP |
| UW-Superior | Zach Otto-Fisher | Emily Carpenter (Interim) |
Assistant softball coach at Gustavus Adolphus |
Carpenter played softball (2 seasons) and basketball (4 seasons) for the Yellowjackets. |
| Virginia Wesleyan |
Liz Huddy | Quntashea Lewis | Head coach at Salem | Lewis went 4-43 in two seasons at Salem. |
| Wentworth | Matt Phippard | Kelly Cole |
Assistant at Division I |
Cole was the head coach at Division I Northeastern from 2014 through 2021, going 87-116 in seven seasons. |
| Whitworth | Joail Griffith | Kenny Love | Assistant men's coach at Whitworth |
Love has been the lead assistant for his alma mater the past five seasons. |
| Wittenberg | Tamika Williams- Jeter |
Melissa Kolbe | Assistant at Division I Cincinnati | Williams-Jeter, who played and coached extensively at the Division I level, is headed back there as the head coach of nearby Dayton University. |