The Athletic Director is finally filling the copious NCAA Division I volleyball coaching vacancies.
Two more Power 5 jobs have been assigned to the assistant since the last coaching carousel report when UCLA hired San Diego assistant Alfee Reft earlier this week.
One is a new job, with tremendously exciting potential. Vanderbilt, the only his SEC school without volleyball, will resume the program in 2025, and the school has asked Kentucky Assistant Anders Nelson to build it from the ground up.
Oregon State University hired Lindsey Behonick of Pittsburgh. This means half the teams in the NCAA Final 4 lost top his assistant.
Not all jobs became assistants.
Oklahoma hired Loyola Marymount coach Aaron Mansfield.
There have also been new openings since our last report. Michigan announced Tuesday that it has fired Mark Rosen after 24 years. This is his one of his two Big Ten changes following his three last season.
In Pac-12, Washington remains open after Keegan Cook left for Minnesota, and Arizona has yet to adopt.
In the Big 12, Kansas remains open for business.
SEC is all set. In our last coaching carousel report, we found Texas A&M hired Jamie Morrison and Missouri hired Dawn Sullivan.
For the first time in a long time, there will be no head coach changes at the ACC.
Job openings in Division I include Fresno, Montana, Nichols, Oral Roberts, St. Louis, Southern Indiana, Texas A&M Commerce, UIW, Louisiana Monroe, UNLV, and UNC Asheville.
There have also been some key transfers that will surely affect the 2023 season.And the 2022 season ended just a week ago.
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Vanderbilt: After quitting volleyball in 1979-80, Vandy is trying to get back into it. Anders Nelson, who spent 11 seasons at the University of Kentucky and served as his head coach for the past seven seasons as an associate, is the only private school in the SEC to be able to build a program from scratch. Nelson, 35, played for Ball State University. He’s another coaching product of Munsiana’s would-be NCAA head coach, which includes Kelly Sheffield of Wisconsin, Dave Shondell of Purdue, and his former boss Craig Skinner of Kentucky. won his NCAA volleyball title for the spring of 2020/2021.
Vanderbilt has won national championships in baseball, women’s tennis and bowling.
Oregon: The Beavers announced Friday Lindsey Behnik, who assisted Dan Fisher for 10 years at Pittsburgh and his predecessor Concordia, will take over a program that finished 7-23 and 2-18 this season.
Behnik played for Concordia and was a member of the NAIA All-American. She and Fisher coached her alma mater towards her 2012 NAIA National title before leaving for the pits.
Oregon State has not had a winning season since 2017 and has won a total of 14 Pac-12 games since.
Oklahoma: The Big 12 School announced Thursday that it has hired Loyola Marymount head coach Aaron Mansfield. In his six seasons at the LMU, he posted his 94-68 record. This includes his 18-10 record this year and his 13-5 record in the West Coast in his conference. The Lions lost to Oregon in his first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Mansfield replaced Tom Black after the 2016 season when Black left for Georgia in the SEC. Oklahoma, along with Texas, plans to join the SEC in 2025.
Mansfield was previously an assistant coach at Santa Clara. He is a standout player at his UC his Santa Barbara, a professional beach his volleyball player and has extensive beach coaching experience.
He carries over a team that went 15-13 last season and 5-11 in the Big 12.
Michigan: Veteran coach Mark Rosen took a leave of absence mid-season and never returned to Big Ten school. His wife, Raisa, served as head coach in his absence. Michigan announced Tuesday that he won’t be back after compiling a record of 468 wins and 299 losses.This season, the Wolverines finished 17-13, 8-12 in his B1G. In 2020 he missed the NCAA Tournament, and in 2021 he lost in the first round.
Rosen coached the Wolverines to the 2012 NCAA National Semifinals, coaching at Cal State Bakersfield, Northern Michigan and Boise State University before taking over at the University of Michigan in 1999.
Tulsa: Kansas State University assistant coach Lauren Ramatowski was announced Monday as the new coach of the Golden Hurricanes. I have experience.
Tulsa is 13-18 this season and 6-13 in the UnAmerican Athletic Conference.
USC Upstate: The school hired Wofford’s assistant, Ali Skyhan. A standout player for Florida Southern, Skyhan spent the last three seasons in Wofford, South Carolina after playing professionally and serving as an assistant in San Francisco.
USC Upstate finished the season 6-23 and the Big South finished 3-13. The program ended in 2021 with the Big South where he finished 10-6, but has never won an entire season.
VCUs: Tim Doyle is back at VCU. The school’s former assistant has been William & Mary’s head coach for the past five seasons. From 2014 until 2017 he was an assistant at VCU.
William & Mary went 12-14 this season and 6-10 in CAA. In his five years at school, Doyle had his record of 32-75. This included his 2020 season when the school planned to quit the sport, but did not in order to comply with Title IX.
The VCU finished 14-17 this season and 9-9 in the Atlantic 10 under interim head coach Kevin Maureen Campbell.
UNC Greensboro: The school announced Wednesday that Felicia Turner will take over after spending the last six seasons as an assistant in Georgia. rice field. She also coached for him at LMU. This year, Georgia entered her NCAA Tournament for the first time since her 2013.
The UNCG finished the season 10-20 and 4-12 in the Southern Conference. Sparta has not had a winning season since 2019.
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It’s no secret that an incredible number of NCAA Division I players flock to transfer portals. As of Saturday morning, the portal had 669. There are also 316 Division II and 90 Division III looking for new schools.
Earlier this week, We interviewed Ohio State coach Jen Flynn Oldenburg and her All-American setter Mac Podraza. About the unique situation with the Buckeyes. Podraza and her fellow All-American libero Kylie Murr, along with her three other seniors in her senior year, are all out of school.
On Friday, Nebraska announced that Florida VolleyballMag.com honorable mention All-American Merritt Beeson became a husker. The sophomore, the 6-foot-3 right winger was second in kills for Florida this season with 335, and led in kills per set with . She also had 124 blocks where she was second.
Another move that could be significant is Jenna Wenner’s leaving Minnesota and moving to Texas. He Wenaas, his 6-1 junior from Frisco, Texas, had his second-highest number of blocks in Minnesota this season with 264, and he had 62.
Her Minnesota teammate, 6th-7th grade Carter Booth, is also on the portal. Examples include Jade Demps of Wisconsin, Jess Mulzik of Michigan, May Partowski and Jess Robinson of Michigan, and Melanie Parra of Texas.
