May 06, 2026
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| It was four seasons and out for Ben O'Brien at Scranton. Photo by Brian Bishop, d3photography.com |
This is where we'll track all the head coaching changes in Division III women's basketball until next season starts. We'll provide links to the news stories posted on schools' websites so you can go deeper into the moves that interest you. You can also check out our listing of men's coaching changes.
If you see anything amiss, please email us at Gordon.Mann@d3sports.com.
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| School (Conference) | Outgoing coach | Incoming coach | Last position |
| Alverno (NACC) | Sahil Lakany | Joshua Steffen | Head coach at NAIA Mount Mary |
| Steffen will try to rebuild this program and get the Inferno back on the court. The school had to cancel its 2025-26 season due to lack of player participation. Steffen spent the last five seasons as the head coach at former D3 member Mount Mary in Milwaukee and was previously the head coach at NACC member Concordia-Chicago. | |||
| Anderson (HCAC) | Jon Gin | ||
| Gin went 70-62 in five seasons with the Ravens and won 17 games last season, which was the program's best mark since 2007-08. | |||
| Bard (LL) | Alaina Walker | ||
| Walker had been an assistant coach at D-II St. Thomas Aquinas. In two seasons, the Raptors went 5-45. | |||
| Baruch (CUNYAC) | Michael Kotrozos | ||
| Kotrozos went 88-88 in seven seasons with the Bearcats, with the 17-12 finish in 2023-24 the best finish. | |||
| Berea (HCAC) | Trent Milby | ||
| Milby, who is taking an athletic director position with a local high school/middle school, went 236-94 in 12 seasons with the Mountaineers, including four prior to Berea joining Division III in 2017-18. Berea won at least 20 games in six of the last eight seasons and reached the NCAA Tournament in 2020. | |||
| Bethany (PAC) | Mikayla Lopez | ||
| Lopez went 54-52 in four seasons and led the Bison to a 17-10 finish last season, the program's best since it went 23-5 under Jina DeRubbo in 2003-04. She left Bethany to take the head coaching job at D-2 Lake Erie. | |||
| Centenary (N.J.) (AEC) | Rose Haller | ||
| Haller was the Cyclones' winngest coach in program history, going 117-115 in nine seasons. After having a successful tenure at D-II East Stroudsburg (Pa.), she will return to that level and lead Bloomfield (N.J.). | |||
| Connecticut College (NESCAC) | Brett Zanardi (interim) | Wade McNamara | Interim head coach at Connecticut College |
| McNamara took the reins of the Camels' program midway through last season and led Conn College to the NESCAC tournament and its first winning season in a decade. | |||
| Eastern Mennonite (ODAC) | Jenny Posey | ||
| Posey spent eight years at EMU after moving from Hollins, posting a 56-125 record, including 5-20 this past season. | |||
| Franciscan (PAC) | Iliana Spoelman | ||
| Spoelman had been head coach for three years after being elevated from the assistant coach position. The Barons were 9-66 (.120) in that span. | |||
| Haverford (Centennial) | Grace Elliott | ||
| Elliott is leaving collegiate athletics to pursue other opportunities after going 45-56 in four seasons at Haverford and 58-94 overall in her six-year career. | |||
| Heidelberg (OAC) | Erin Eaton | ||
| Eaton was "no longer employed," according to local reports, after a season in which the university allowed her to coach through multiple allegations of her verbally, mentally and emotionally abusing players. Eaton went 14-46 as a head coach at Muskingum, 80-102 at Pitt-Greensburg, and 4-45 (.082) at Heidelberg. | |||
| Hilbert (AMCC) | Nicole Bullock | Ben Arseneault | Head WBB coach at Keystone |
| Bullock, in her first D-III coaching job, coached for five seasons, finishing with a 29-99 career mark (.227). Hilbert was 4-22 this past season. | |||
| Hiram (NCAC) | Alexandra Dellas | Jim Wiedie | Head WBB coach at Neb. Wesleyan |
| Dellas coached nine seasons, posting a 75-136 mark, including 7-18 in the program's first season in the PAC. She's replaced by Wiedie, who left Nebraska Wesleyan at the beginning of the 2025-26 season. The Northeast Ohio native also coached at D-I Indiana State and D-II Findlay (Ohio). | |||
| Ithaca (LL) | Dan Raymond | Erin Hughes | WBB assistant at Trinity (Conn.) |
| Raymond announced his retirement after 26 seasons, 522 wins as head coach at Ithaca, 538 career wins overall. He's followed by Erin Hughes who spent two years at Trinity and four at her alma mater Washington and Lee where she won ODAC defensive player of the year in 2019. | |||
| Keystone (UEC) | Ben Arseneault | Shania Iglesias | WBB assistant at Oswego |
| Arseneauly left to take the head coaching job at Hilbery. Iglesias was an assistant coach at Oswego State for one season, and was a senior in 2024-25. | |||
| Lake Forest (MWC) | Tamlyn Tills | John McGinty | Head WBB coach at St. Francis (Ill.) |
| Tills retired after 18 years as head coach, with a career record of 135-164. McGinty comes to the program from an NAIA school, where he went 110-45 in his five years. A number of his assistant coaching roles were also in the Chicagoland area. | |||
| LeTourneau (SCAC) | Scott McAllister | Morgan Garrett | WBB assistant at East Texas Baptist |
| McAllister spent four years at LetU, and was 28-74, including 5-20 overall in the program's first season in the SCAC. | |||
| Lewis & Clark (NWC) | Anne Dorris | Annie Bourne | WBB assistant at DePauw |
| After going 29-95 over the past five seasons, the River Otters selected Annie Bourne who spent 11 seasons as Kris Huffman's assistant at DePauw. Lewis and Clark has not had a winning season since going 14-12 in 2017-18. | |||
| Lyon (SLIAC) | Michael Peckham | ||
| Peckham, who took an assistant coaching position at Division II Texas A&M International, went 12-15 in his sole season at Lyon. | |||
| Mary Hardin-Baylor (ASC) | Katie Novak-Lenoir | Zenarae Antoine | WBB head coach at D-I Texas State |
| UMHB went from 21 wins to 17 to just 8 in Novak-Lenoir's three seasons. Antoine's Texas State teams were 225-232 in her 15 years, but did go 23-10 twice in the past decade. | |||
| Monmouth (MWC) | Michelle DeCoud | Izy Todd | Dir. of Ops for D-I North Dakota |
| Todd is a 2018 graduate of Monmouth and was on the staff at D-II Lake Superior State prior to UND. DeCoud had coached for the past three seasons. The Scots did progress in wins in those three seasons, but from 2 to 5 to 8. | |||
| Moravian (Landmark) | Mary Beth Spirk | Olivia Woolam | AC at Denison |
| Spirk, a Division III lifer and athletic director as well as coach at Moravian, retired with a career mark of 657-360. She later passed away from her battle with cancer. Woolam had spent three years as an assistant at Denison, including this past season in which Denison won the national championship. | |||
| Mount Union (OAC) | Suzy Venet | ||
| Venet, a Mount Union alumna and 1998 D3hoops.com first team All-American, has coached her alma mater for 21 years but will step down from that role to focus on her associate AD role. She was 323-227 at Mount Union, 334-243 overall in her coaching career. | |||
| Muhlenberg (Centennial) | Ron Rohn | ||
| Before the season, Rohn announced he would retire. He finishes with a 437-203 at Muhlenberg in 24 seasons and was previously head coach at Hofstra and Colgate. | |||
| Nebraska Wesleyan (ARC) | Jim Wiedie | Sydney Golladay | AC at Nebraska Wesleyan |
| Golladay took over in "late December" and led NWU to some subset of its five wins in a 5-20 season. The interim tag was dropped after the season. | |||
| Nichols (CNE) | Ava Limonciello | Jacque Rivera | AC at Nichols |
| Limonciello was named interim coach on Nov. 7, one day before the Bison tipped off, after one year as a GA. Nichols went 13-12, which was the same record it compiled in 2024-25, and the best in 16 seasons. | |||
| North Park (CCIW) | Annie Radenkovich | Kira Mowen | Head coach at D-II Millersville (Pa.) |
| The school "parted ways" with Radenkovich after four seasons in which the Vikings were 21-79, 6-57 in CCIW play. She's followed by Mowen who led Knox to a 35-19 record in two seasons and a conference title in 2023. She spent the last three seasons at D-II Millersville where she went 34-37. | |||
| Pacific Lutheran (NWC) | Lee Aduddell | Aly Lacey | High school girls basketball coach |
| Aduddell's first team won two games, then peaked as high as 11 wins before slipping back to two this year. Lacey has coached high school basketball the last eight seasons. | |||
| Pitt-Greensburg (AMCC) | Julie Bolden | ||
| Bolden went 5-45 in two seasons with the Bobcats. | |||
| Rhodes (SAA) | Judi Vignuelle-Thurman | Andrew Galow | Director at youth basketball program |
| Thurman was let go with a week and a half left in the season and was replaced on an interim basis by former coach Matt Dean. Thurman was 28-44 in two-plus seasons. Galow returns to his alma mater to lead the women's program after previoulsy working as an assistant on the men's side. Galow was also the 2013 SAA men's basketball player of the year in his senior season. | |||
| Rockford (NACC) | Mike Winters | Bruce Williams | Associate WBB HC at UW-Stevens Point |
| Williams is the fourth head coach in the past four seasons of the program, replacing Winters, who was a high school teacher and a former television personality. The Regents went 1-24 this past season. | |||
| Rose-Hulman (HCAC) | Devrinn Paul | ||
| Paul, who went 33-45 in three seasons with the Fightin' Engineers, is taking an assistant coaching job at D1 Bellarmine. | |||
| RPI (LL) | John Greene | Megan Yawman | WBB assistant at Carnegie Mellon |
| Greene was head coach for 25 seasons at RPI and had a 322-295 mark, including 17-9 this past season. In all, he was 358-381 in 30 seasons, two at Bridgeport and three at Western New England. Yawman, who played four seasons at Liberty League rival Ithaca, spent the last two seasons on Kathy McConnell-Miller's staff at CMU. | |||
| Scranton (LAND) | Ben O'Brien | ||
| Four seasons, 117-7 record, and oh-so-close to a national title at Scranton before Ben O'Brien left to take the head coaching job at Division I Lafayette. | |||
| Southern Virginia (USAC) | Lynette Schroeder | ||
| Schroeder led the Knights to a 124-45 record with four NCAA Tournament appearances in just six seasons. The Utah native departs to take the head coaching job at D2 Westminster (Utah) where she was previously an assistant coach. | |||
| Springfield (NEWMAC) | Naomi Graves | ||
| She retires after 40 seasons as a head coach, with a career record of 616-451. | |||
| St. Catherine (MIAC) | Don Mulhern | Audra Clark | WBB assistant at Northern Illinois |
| Mulhern spent nine years at St. Kate's after a successful decade at UW-Superior. St. Kate's was 97-106 in his time in St. Paul. A 2019 grad of St. Cate's and former player under Mulhern, Clark has coached at Oswego, Cortland, Bowling Green and Northern Illinois before getting her first head coaching job. | |||
| St. Scholastica (MIAC) | Jason Schmitz | ||
| Schmitz resigned to take a D-I assistant job, perhaps with new St. Thomas (Minn.) head coach Mandy Pearson, who went there from nearby Minnesota-Duluth. CSS went 16-10 this past season, by far its best since entering the MIAC. | |||
| Stevens (MACF) | Megan Haughey | ||
| Haughey departed after 12 years to take the athletic director job at Rutgers-Newark. In her time at Stevens, the Ducks went 232-122, including five trips to the NCAA Tournament. | |||
| Stevenson (MACC) | Jackie Boswell | Casey Filiault | WBB assistant at Le Moyne |
| Boswell was promoted to an assistant AD role after 15 years as head coach. The Mustangs were 184-196 in that span, 10-15 this past season. Filiault previously was an assistant at Catholic and a GA at DeSales. | |||
| Tufts (NESCAC) | Meredith Mesaris | ||
| Mesaris, who was seen as a prime candidate to take over the Scranton job, referenced pursuing "new opportunities outside of college coaching," in her departure from Tufts. The Jumbos were 13-12 in her only season after Mesaris was hired two months before practices started. | |||
| UW-Eau Claire (WIAC) | Tonja Englund | Hannah Iverson | Head WBB coach at UW-Stout |
| Englund retired after more than a quarter-century at UW-Eau Claire, where she won 427 career games. | |||
| UW-Stout (WIAC) | Hannah Iverson | Sam Clayton | Head WBB coach at D-II Michigan Tech |
| Iverson went 125-74 in seven seasons at Stout, including leading the Blue Devils to the Final Four in 2025. Clayton, who grew up near UW-Stout, had success at her alma mater over eight seasons as head coach and will be taking her first Division III job. | |||
| Westminster, Mo. (SLIAC) | Talisha Washington | ||
| Washington was promoted from within before the 2019-20 season and went 108-67 in her tenure, although just 11-15, 10-6 in the SLIAC this past season. | |||
| Whitworth (NWC) | Kenny Love | ||
| The Pirates were 32-58 in four seasons under Love, who played men's basketball at the institution and was a men's basketball assistant before taking over as women's head coach | |||