2024-25 women's college basketball coaching carousel
As the 2024-25 women’s college basketball season nears its end, the coaching carousel has begun to spin. Each opening and hiring will be tracked here and updated daily.
Jobs open: 20
Jobs filled: 31
A-10
Caroline McCombs steps down as head coach, Doug Novak named interim head coach (2/24/25)
Ganiyat Adeduntan hired (3/20/25)
AAC
Jennifer Sullivan leaves to be assistant coach at Missouri (3/25)
LeAnn Freland hired (4/1)
ACC
Nell Fortner retires (3/31)
SMU parts ways with Toyelle Wilson (3/30)
America East
UMass Lowell parts ways with head coach Denise King (3/5/25)
ASUN
Bellarmine
Chancellor Dugan retires (4/2)
Chelsea Lyles steps down (3/24)
Big 12
Arizona State parts ways with Natasha Adair (3/8/25)
Molly Miller hired (3/21/25)
BYU parts ways with Amber Whiting, Lee Cummard named interim head coach (3/7/25)
Lee Cummard promoted to head coach (3/31)
Houston has parted ways with head coach Ronald Hughey (3/6/25)
Matthew Mitchell hired (3/27)
Big East
Doug Bruno steps down (3/28)
Jill Pizzotti named head coach after serving as interim head coach this season (3/3)
Big Ten
Marisa Moseley resigns as head coach and Margaret McKeon named interim head coach (3/9/25)
Robin Pingeton hired (3/25)
Big Sky
MONTANA
Brian Holsinger resigns, Nate Harris named interim head coach (2/20/25)
Nate Harris named head coach (3/18/25)
Loree Payne takes Santa Clara job (3/24)
Laura Dinkins hired (4/1)
Portland State has parted ways with head coach Chelsey Gregg (3/12/25)
Big South
Scott Merritt no longer listed as head coach, Katie Nelson named acting head coach (2/25)
Big West
Jeff Harada out as head coach (3/20/25)
Horizon
Detroit Mercy
Kate Achter takes the Western Michigan job (3/28)
Jeff Tungate retires, Deanna Richard named interim head coach (12/9/24)
Keisha Newell hired (3/24)
MAC
Northern Illinois did not renew head coach Lisa Carlsen’s contract (3/10/25)
Jacey Brooks hired (4/1)
Shane Clipfell retires (3/17/25)
Kate Achter hired (3/28)
MAAC
Rider parted ways with head coach Lynn Milligan (3/10)
Jackie Hartzell hired (3/3)
MEAC
Ed Davis Jr. retires (3/18/25)
Larry Vickers takes the Auburn job (3/23)
Mountain West
Jaime White steps down (3/24)
San Jose State parts ways with April Phillips (3/24)
MVC
Mary Evans out as head coach (3/18/25)
NEC
Mercyhurst
Mercyhurst did not renew head coach Brooklyn Kohlheim’s contract (3/10/25)
Saint Francis
Keila Whittington resigns as head coach (3/20/25)
OVC
Marqus McGlothan named interim head coach (5/21/24)
Marqus McGlothan named head coach (3/14/25)
Chris Palmer named interim head coach (11/24)
Morehead State announces they’ll begin search for next head coach (3/6)
Ashton Feldhaus hired (3/24)
Patriot
American parts ways with Tiffany Coll (3/9/25)
Kelly Killion hired (2/2)
Ganiyat Adeduntan takes the George Washington job (3/20/25)
Candice Green named interim head coach (8/20/24)
Candice Green named head coach, interim tag removed (2/24/25)
SEC
Arkansas parts ways with Mike Neighbors (3/11/25)
Kelsi Musick hired (3/21/25)
Auburn parts ways with Johnnie Harris (3/6/25)
Robin Pingeton steps down as head coach (2/26/25)
Kellie Harper hired as head coach (3/18/25)
Southland
Houston Christian
Donna Finnie out as head coach (3/11/25)
Drew Long hired (2/2)
Parts ways with head coach Jeff Dow (3/14/25)
Jhasmin Player hired (3/28)
McNeese will not renew contract of Lynn Kennedy (3/6/25)
Ayla Guzzardo hired (3/22/25)
Ayla Guzzardo takes the McNeese State job (3/22/25)
Jeff Dow hired (3/25)
Royce Chadwick retires (2/2)
Summit
Mallory Bernhard steps down, Dennis Hutter promoted to head coach (3/24)
Kelsi Musick takes the Arkansas job (3/21/25)
Cophie Anderson promoted to head coach (3/31)
Sun Belt
UL Monroe
Missy Bilderback takes Southern Miss job (3/23)
Scotty Fletcher hired (3/28)
Joye Lee-McNelis retires (2/25/25)
Missy Bilderback hired (3/23)
SWAC
Freda Freeman-Jackson retires (3/25)
Sandy Pugh resigns as head coach (3/17/25)
WAC
Grand Canyon
Molly Miller leaves for ASU job (3/21/25)
Winston Gandy hired (3/24)
WCC
San Diego parts ways with head coach Cindy Fisher (2/23/25)
Blanche Alverson hired (3/25)
Bill Carr resigns, Michael Floyd named interim head coach (10/12/24)
Santa Clara will not retain Michael Floyd as full-time head coach (3/11/25)
Loree Payne hired (3/24)