| Lisa Stone who led UW-Eau Claire to 277 wins and 11 NCAA Tournaments has returned to Division III after winning another 356 games in Division I. Saint Louis University Athletics file photo |
This is where we track all the head coaching changes in Division III women's basketball that occur from the end of the 2023-24 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 same tracker on the men's side.
If you see anything amiss, please email us at Gordon.Mann@d3sports.com.
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| School | Last Coach |
Replaced |
Last position | Notes |
| Adrian | Kathy Morris | Sam Miller | Assistant at D1 North Carolina | Morris went 332-461 in 31 seasons with the Bulldogs. She's replaced by Adrian alum Sam Miller who coached at UNC and Duke...plus Kalamazoo. He played for the Bulldogs from 2008 through 2010. |
| Augsburg | Ted Riverso | Mallie Doucette | Assistant at Concordia-Moorhead | Riverso went 128-82 in nine seasons at Augsburg and led the Auggies to their first MIAC women's basketball title. Including his 15 years at St. Thomas (Minn.), he went 465-162 with three Final Fours and a national title in 1991. |
| Bard | Casi Donelan | Alaina Walker | Assistant at D2 St. Thomas Aquinas (NY) |
Walker played at D1 St. Bonaventure and previously coached at D2 Pace. Donelan went 17-127 in six seasons with the Raptors. |
| Beloit | Natalie Miller | Larry Knight | Assistant at Beloit | Miller went 19-31 in two seasons with the Buccaneers. Prior to joining Miller's staff, Knight was a high school junior varsity coach in Maryland. |
| Brandeis | Carol Simon | Julie Prichett | Assistant at Babson. | Simon went 469-419 in 35 seasons with the Judges. Prichett has 13 seasons of head coaching experience across Regis (Mass.), former D3 member Pine Manor, and Division II St. Anselm. |
| Buena Vista | David Wells | Kylee Boettcher | High school head coach in Panora, Iowa |
Boettcher was a two-sport athlete at BVU, playing basketball and softball for the Beavers. |
| Cairn | Allen Kuiper | Amie Eppolito | High school coach in Philadelphia, Pa. | Kuiper went 20-31 in two seasons with the Highlanders, who jad a 12-win improvement last season. Eppolitio played four seasons at Cairn and later coached there for four seasons. |
| Carnegie Mellon |
Jacqui Hullah | Kathy McConnell-Miller | High School coach in Washington, Pa. | McConnell-Miller went 156-176 in 11 seasons split between D1 Tulsa and Colorado. She also coached in the WNBA before returning to Western PA where she started her coaching career. |
| CCNY | Varrell Eddie | Marcello Di Russo | Assistant at CCNY | Di Russo also had coaching stops at USCAA member Five Towns and junior college LaGuardia Community College. |
| Chicago | Maria Williamson | Michelle Gardner-Bilek | Assistant at Chicago | Williamson, who took the head coaching job at Trinity (Conn.), went 53-24 in four seasons with the Maroons. She's replaced by Gardner-Bilek who won a national title as a player at Illinois Wesleyan. |
| Covenant | Kyle Yost | Tonya McIntosh | Academic administrator in Louisiana |
McIntosh went 81-93 in seven seasons at former D3 member Lousiana College (now Louisiana Christian). |
| Crown | Bridgeport Tusler | David Pederson | Assistant at Northwestern (Minn.) |
Pederson coached men's and women's basketball at UMAC rival Northwestern (Minn.). He was also a graduate assistant at Dubuque. |
| Dean | Laura Habacker | Megan Dixon | Assistant at Eastern Nazarene |
Dixon had an eventful summer, first being named head coach at Eastern Nazarene and then, after ENC closed, taking the same job at Dean College. Dixon was All-Region as a player at Mass-Boston. |
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Delaware |
Laura Hogan | Lauren Stackhouse | High school coach in West Chester, Pa. | Hogan graduated as the program's all-time leading scorer and now retires as the program's all-time winningest coach, with 321 wins in 28 years. She's replaced by her one-time player Lauren (Snyder) Stackhouse who has been a successful high school coach in the area. |
| Dominican | Antonio Rivas | Tethnie Carrillo | Assistant at Dominican | Carrillo went 142-211 in 16 seasons as the head coach at Elmhurst. |
| Edgewood | Chaia Huff | Kole Vivian | Head coach at Marietta | Huff went 104-85 in eight seasons with the Eagles and was the program's winningest coach. She joined the staff at D1 Marquette. Vivian, who graduated from and coached at UW-Stevens Point, returns to Wisconsin after a successul run at Marietta. |
| Elmhurst | Jason Pruitt | Cameron Tucker | Assistant at D1 Wyoming | Pruitt, who took an assistant position at D1 Indiana State, went 12-14 in his lone season with the Bluejays. Tucker spent six seasons as the associate head coach under Kris Huffman at DePauw. |
| Endicott | Brittany Hutchinson | Jamie Insel | Assistant at D1 Boston U. |
Insel was named the 2020 WBCA Assistant Coach of the Year when she was at Tufts. |
| Fredonia State | Sarah Cartmill | TBD | TBD | Cartmill, who departed for St. John Fisher, went 50-76 with the Blue Devils. |
| Greensboro | Laquanda Dawkins Prince | Aaron Fernandez | Assistant at Guilford | Dawkins Prince went 7-19 in her lone season with the Pride. Fernandez served as an assistant coach at Guilford, Roanoke and Division I Davidson. |
| Grove City | Chelle Fuss | Jason Baker | Interim head coach at Grove City | Baker went 11-14 as the Wolverines' interim head coach last season. |
| Heidelberg | Rachel Mease | Erin Eaton | Assistant at Heidelberg | Eaton went 14-46 in three seasons at Muskingum and 80-102 in seven seasons at Pitt-Greensburg. |
| Hendrix | Drew Gaeng | Wes Sullivan | Head men's basketball coach at NAIA Arkansas Baptist in 2021-22 | Sullivan was previously a volunteer assistant at Hendrix for one season and also coached baseball at D1 Central Arkansas in the late 1990s. |
| Juniata | Danny Young-Uhrich | Marissa Molnar | Assistant at Franklin and Marshall |
Young-Uhrich, who led the Eagles to the NCAA Tournament four times, went 254-279 in 15 seasons at Juniata. Molnar, who played four seasons at D2 Bloomsburg (Pa.), had coaching stops at Misericorida and F&M. |
| Keuka | Gary Broadhurst | Paige Emborsky | Graduate assistant at D1 Virginia Commonwealth |
Emborsky, who worked under former D3 head coach Beth Boyle last season, returns to Western New York. She finished her playing career at D2 Daemen in Amherst, N.Y. |
| LaGrange | Jasen Jonus | Destiny Lane-Frazier | Assistant at Berry | Jonus, who left for Oglethorpe, went 61-28 in four seasons at LaGrange and was the 2023 CCS Coach of the Year. Prior to coaching at Berry, Lane-Frazier coached high school girls basketball in Alabama. |
| Lancaster Bible |
Ryan Carpenter | Kel Brown | Assistant at Messiah |
Brown had been on Mike Miller's staff at Messiah since his time as a undergraduate student there. His grandfather was the head coach at Prince George's Community College in Maryland for more than 40 years. |
| Lycoming | Christen Ditzler | Shane Rottier | Head coach at Wilson | Ditzler had 614 wins as a head coach at Lyco -- 366 in basketball, 235 in softball, and 13 in volleyball. She's replaced by Rottier who went 41-36 in three seasons at Wilson. |
| Maine-Presque Isle |
Gavin Kane | Mark Knight | Men's assistant at UMPI | Knight has worn many hats at UMPI including Sports Information Director and Associate head men's basketball coach. He will also be UMPI's Assistant Athletic Director, in addition to leading the Owls' women's program. |
| Marietta | Kole Vivian | Jenna Andersen | Assistant at Marietta | Vivian leaves the Pioneers as the program's all-time winningest coach with a record of 143-66 in eight seasons, including all four of its NCAA Tournament appearances. Andersen, who was a captain on the Pioneers' 2018 OAC title-winning team, steps into the head coaching role. |
| Mary Baldwin | DeEarnest McLemore | Brad Rideout | Interim men's head coach at Paul Smith's College |
McLemore went 3-22 in his lone season as the Squirrels' head coach. Rideout was the head women's coach at USCAA member Paul Smith's College for three seasons and then the interim men's head coach for two seasons. |
| Marymount | Margaret White | Claire Mattox | Assistant at D1 American | White went 61-19 in three seasons with the Saints, including two NCAA Tournament appearances. After spending time as a Division I assistant Mattox returns to D3 where she previously coached (Vassar) and played (Washington College). |
| Marywood | Jennifer Carleton | Tara Macciocco | Assistant men's basketball coach at Keystone |
Macciocco returns to Marywood where she is already the all-time winningest coach with 206 wins in 14 seasons. |
| Massachusetts College |
David Bostick | Will Brown | Head coach at D2 St. Rose (N.Y.) |
Bostick, who was named the new head coach at Skidmore, went 9-65 in three seasons with the Trailblazers. Brown won 315 games as the men's head coach at D1 University of Albany and then led D2 St. Rose to the NCAA Tournament before the school closed. |
| Merchant Marine | Matt Dempsey |
Alexa Shields |
Assistant at Merchant Marine | Dempsey went 209-176 in 16 seasons at Merchant Marine. His long-time assistant Alexa Shields will lead the program on an interim basis this season. |
| Millikin | Olivia Lett | Kirsten Hammer | Assistant at UW-Whitewater | Lett went 105-48 in six seasons, leading the Big Blue to the last three NCAA tournaments. She departs for the top job at D2 Illiniois-Springfield and is replaced by Hammer who was the top assistant at WIAC champion UW-Whitewater. |
| Mount Holyoke |
Jackie Ward | Abby Wemhoff | Assistant at Juniata | Wemhoff spent six season as Juniata after playing four at Mount Union. |
| Muskingum | Kelly Broderick | Alison McCarthy | Assistant at Rose-Hulman | Broderick went 21-29 in two seasons with the Muskies. She heads back to Upstate New York and takes the head job at D2 D'Youville. McCarthy spent most of her career at the high school level in Kentucky before joining the staff at Rose-Hulman. |
| MUW | Drew Johnson | Eric Vaughn | Assistant at Millsaps | Vaughn was an assistant coach for the Millsaps men's and women's basketball programs and the interim head coach for Mississippi Delta Community College. |
| Nebraska Wesleyan |
Tyler Bullock (Interim) |
Jim Weidie | Assistant at D1 Nebraska- Omaha |
Weidie has a career record of 309-226 between his stints as head coach at D1 Indiana State and D2 Findlay (Ohio). |
| North Central (Minn.) |
Leah Szabala | David Rohrback | Assistant at North Central (Minn.) |
Szabala went 34-27 in two seasons as the Rams' head coach. Prior to his time at NCU, Rohrback coached high school boys basketball in South Dakota. |
| Northland | Benjamin Kluzak | Corey Sackmann | Assistant coach at Northland | Kluzak went 0-22 in his lone season as the Jills' head coach. Sackmann is also the College's head golf coach. |
| Norwich | Mark Zacher | Ute Otley | High school coach in Hinesburg, Vt. |
Otley won four Ivy League championships as a player at Dartmouth and her daughter Sadie played at Tufts. |
| Oglethorpe | Alex Richey | Jasen Jonus | Head coach at LaGrange | Richey, who was the SAA Coach of the year in 2018 and 2020, went 154-103 in 10 seasons with the Stormy Petrels. He has been replaced by Jasen Jonus, who was the head coach at LaGrange for four seasons. |
| Penn State- Abington |
Megan Fox | Tiara White | Assistant at Penn State- Abington |
White steps into the head coaching role after Megan Fox left for the head coaching job at Division II Chestnut Hill. |
| Pitt-Bradford | Kaserra Owens | Melloni Benson | Assistant at D2 Central State (Ohio) |
Owens went 18-81 in four seasons with the Panthers. Benson makes the short move to Western Pennsylvania from Central State in Ohio where she was the assistant last season and interim head coach during the offseason. |
| Pitt-Greensburg | Darien Lantz | Julie Bolden | Assistant at D1 Dayton | Lantz went 26-27 in two sesons with the Panthers. Bolden was an assistant coach and the Director of Recruiting and Creativity at D1 Dayton. |
| Pratt | Ziggy Brown | Carlos Acevedo | Assistant at D2 Adelphi | Acevedo, who had success at the Division II level, will try to turn around the Cannoneers who went 1-41 in their last two seasons. |
| Rochester Tech |
Amy Reed | Melissa Kuberka | Head coach at St. John Fisher |
After building St. John Fisher into the top program in the Empire 8, Kuberka will try to do the same with RIT in the Liberty League. She replaces Reed who had more wins (192) than all of RIT's previous NCAA coaches combined (111). |
| Rockford | Victoria Nguyen | Ta-Rel Franklin | Assistant at D1 Cal Poly |
Franklin was previously a men's basketball assistant at Hendrix and Bluffton. |
| Sage | Allison Coleman | Michael Branche | Assistant coach at Sage | Coleman went 142-103 in 10 seasons with the Gators, winning more games than the rest of the school's previous NCAA coaches combined (120). Branche is also the school's head women's tennis coach. |
| Schreiner | Stacey Stephens | Kendra Foreman | Assistant at Howard Payne | Stephens went 40-40 in three seasons with the Mountaineers. She's replaced by Foreman who was the interim head coach at Mary Hardin-Baylor from 2021 through 2023. |
| Skidmore | Jessica Turner | David Bostick | Head coach at Massachusetts College |
Turner went 75-56 in five seasons with the Thoroughbreds, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances. Skidmore will be Bostick's fourth stop as a Division III head coach following Mass College, Fitchburg State and Becker. |
| St. John Fisher |
Melissa Kuberka | Sarah Cartmill | Head coach at Fredonia | Kuberka went 146-35 and won three Empire 8 Coach of the Year awards in seven seasons with the Cardinals. Cartmill is 59-142 in eight seasons at Bard and Fredonia State. |
| St. Mary's (Ind.) | Melissa Makielski | Robert Hoffman | Assistant at Trine | Makielski went 48-132 in eight seasons with the Belles. Hoffman comes to St. Mary's from MIAA rival Trine where he was part of the Thunder's conference title-winning teams. |
| St. Mary's (Md.) | Brittney Kemp | LaTanya Collins | Assistant at D1 Iona | Kemp left St. Mary's (Md.) after three seasons to become the next head coach at Washington and Lee. Collins has experience as an assistant at D1 programs Iona, FDU-Teaneck, and Detroit Mercy where she was interim head coach. |
| St. Mary's (Minn.) | David Foley | Courtney Shelton | Assistant at D1 UW-Milwaukee | Shelton graduated from D1 Northern Illinois and coached six seasons at Central Michigan. |
| St. Olaf | Jasmine Borgmann | Megan Lueck | Assistant at D1 South Dakota State |
Lueck played at D2 Minnesota-Duluth and has spent her coaching career at the D1 level. |
| Transylvania | Juli Fulks | Hannah Varel | Associate head coach at Transylvania |
After leading the Pioneers to the 2023 national title and the third longest winning streak in D-III WBB history, Fulks will be the new head coach at D-I Marshall. Varel was promoted from within. |
| Trinity (Conn.) | Emily Garner | Maria Williamson | Head coach at Chicago | Garner made the jump to D1 Cornell after going 124-55 with the Bantams and leading Trinity to its best season ever in 2022-23. Williamson, who has experience playing in New England (Bowdoin) and coaching there (Dartmouth) moves to the NESCAC from the UAA. |
| Trinity (D.C.) | Angela Richmond | Jerome Cook | Head coach at Northern Virginia Community College |
Cook has spent the last decade as an assistant and head coach for junior colleges in the Chesapeake region. |
| University of Dallas |
Brianna Sims | Ty Adams | Men's assistant at Colorado College |
Sims went 36-74 in five seasons with the Crusaders. She left to take the head coaching job at D2 Ohio Dominican. Before coaching at Colorado College, Adams was a high school girls basketball coach in Colorado and the girls basketball president for the state's high school coaching association. |
| Virginia Wesleyan |
Quntashea Lewis | Megan Green | Assistant at Dickinson | Green was part of the Centennial Conference coaching staff of the year in 2022-23 and also coached at Mary Washington. |
| Washington & Lee |
Christine Clancy | Brittney Kemp | Head coach at St. Mary's (Md.) | Clancy went 212-122 in 13 seasons with the Generals, leading them to the Elite 8 and their first Top 25 ranking this past season. Kemp went 43-33 in three seasons with the Seahawks and won UEC Coach of the Year honors in 2022-23. |
| Washington U. | Randi Henderson | Lisa Stone | Head coach at D1 St. Louis (2021-22 Season) |
Stone has a career record of 667-375 in 36 seasons, 21 of them in D1. She also won 236 games at UW-Eau Claire and led the Blugolds to the NCAA Tournament 11 times, including the 1994 national title game. |
| Western Connecticut |
Kimberley Rybczyk | Maria Conlon | High school coach in Connecticut. |
Rybczyk went 305-220 in 22 seasons at Western Connecticut with five LEC Coach of the Year honors and three NCAA Tournament appearances. She also coached at RPI and Southwestern for a career record of 413-321 over 28 seasons. Conlon won a D1 national title as a player at UConn and a D2 title as a coach at Southern Connecticut. |
| Wheaton (Mass.) |
Allison Chernow (Interim) |
Kanika Cummings | Assistant at Trinity (Conn.) | Cummings was the Bantams' top assistant the last three seasons and coached at Conn College prior to that. The Lyons went 10-15 last season. |
| Whittier | Roy Dow | Kristen Dowling | Assistant at Redlands | Dow went 82-93 in seven seasons with the Poets. His career record is 168-165 including time at Pfeiffer and Cal Lutheran. Dowling returns to the SCIAC where she won six regular season titles with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps before taking the head coaching job at D1 Pepperdine for four seasons. |
| William Peace |
Lori Drake | Annalee Bollinger | Assistant at Brevard | Bollinger knows William Peace's conference well after coaching at Averett when it was in that conference and playing and coaching at Brevard. |
| William Smith |
Lindsay Sharman | Seraphine Hamilton | High school head coach and teacher in Princeton, N.J. |
Hamilton had success as a player (two Liberty League titles) and assistant coach at William Smith. She also played soccer for the Herons. |
| Wilson | Shane Rottier | Dylan Ward | Assistant at Wilson | Rottier went 41-36 in three seasons with the Phoenix before moving to Lycoming this offseason. Ward was his assistant for the last two seasons and previously coached high school basketball in the Cumberland Valley. |
| Wooster | Mary Kate Tierney | Olivia Besancon | Assistant at Muskingum | Tierney went 11-67 in three seasons with the Fighting Scots. Besancon spent three years as an assistant at her alma mater Muskingum and one at Heidelberg. |
| Yeshiva | Bill Zatulskis | Orri Cohen | Assistant at Yeshiva | Cohen replaces Zatulskis who went 27-50 in four seasons with Yeshiva. |