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The top ten trending jobs of the week...
#10: Black Hills State: Aquatics and Facilities Coordinator
#9: Frostburg State: Assistant Athletic Trainer
#8: Quincy: Assistant Softball Coach
#7: Fort Hays State: Internal Operations/Facilities and Event Management Graduate Assistant
#6: Kutztown: Coordinator of Internal Operations
#5: Cal State San Marcos: Deputy AD/Title IX Coordinator
#4: Roberts Wesleyan: Head Men's & Women's Swimming and Diving Coach
#3: West Texas A&M: Director for Athletic Communications
#2: Albany State: Assistant AD for Business Operations
#1: Frostburg State: Director of the Adams/Wyche Center for Academic Success
#10: Central Missouri elevates Director of Sales Dalton Reynolds to Asst. AD for Annual Giving. (link)
#9: Biola AD Bethany Miller joined College.town’s Kristen Eargle to discuss the new brand identity, growth of the department and more as the Eagles are coming off of their second-best Directors’ Cup finish in program history. “A lot of it really has just been investing in people and thinking about how we model spiritual formation through sport, even in our staff and having that directly translate into how our student-athletes are growing.” More notable takeaways…
➤ The new look came up as a possibility during the 18-month process to form new core values: faith, formation and fierce. “That's part of the reason the feedback has been really great is because there's just really strong representation and people know and can see that we're still the eagles, we still have our red, and then we were able to add the blue that really shares the light of the Southern California sky, but also just that we represent and are training to be the light of the world and the way that we want to impact the world for Christ and train our students to be able to do that in their whole person.”
➤ On the decision to add women’s flag football, Miller points to data that shows a quarter of high school flag football athletes are in California and that the addition will line up with the sport’s debut at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. “So certainly for recruiting, it does make strategic sense to be able to launch this sport and kind of lead as one of the West Region schools. And also for our mission, we are a very early adopter for a Christian university, and so we are able to welcome that demographic as a covenantal school. So it made strategic sense for those reasons. We've developed a lot of spirit for our athletics programs across our campus. And just to have another team of 20 to 24 female student-athletes come on campus and be able to integrate their whole person development within our mission and vision is really exciting to us.” (link)
#8: The DI Membership Committee is recommending the DI Board of Directors introduce legislation to change the DI reclassification application fee to be “based on six times the amount of the estimated annual average value of direct benefits through distribution and championships made available to Division I members.” Here’s the thesis…
➤ “This recommendation reflects the committee’s conclusion that the current application fee undervalues Division I membership. The increased application fee is based on the fewest number of years that a reclassifying institution needs to move from entering the reclassification process to becoming fully eligible to receive DI revenue distribution. It more accurately reflects the value of Division I membership, retains the legislation’s existing refund provisions, mitigates the dilution of revenue distribution for members of the division and helps positions the division to address any championships-related pressures a larger division may face. Further, the increased application fee helps a reclassifying institution demonstrate its financial commitment to Division I’s philosophy, operating principles and student-athlete experience.”
#7: Nova Southeastern announces a series of promotions. Assoc. AD for Sports Administration/Internal Operations/Business Services Danielle Daniel gets bumped up to Senior Assoc. AD. Asst. AD for Compliance and NCAA Rules Education Yashiva Edwards, Asst. AD for Sports Performance and Student-Athlete Wellness Steve Orris, Asst. AD for Sports Medicine Dustin Gatens and Asst. AD for External Affairs Robert Baroniel are all promoted to Assoc. AD. (link)
#6: Notable from DIII: Pacific Lutheran football student-athlete Jackson Hale, former Claremont McKenna men’s basketball student-athlete Connor Printz and former Lynchburg dual-sport athlete Chris Jennings have filed a class action lawsuit against the NCAA over the prohibition of athletic scholarships in DIII. From the suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California: “The NCAA has engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to fix the price of Division III athletic labor at zero by prohibiting every member of Division III, the NCAA’s largest division at more than 400 schools, from offering a single penny of athletic scholarship. … The Division III prohibition on athletic aid is undeniably a multi-conference agreement in Alston’s own taxonomy. Division III schools remain free to differentiate themselves along every dimension that does not fix the price of the labor that sustains the marquee recruiting tools that are their athletic programs.” (link)
#5: The DII Management Council has approved requiring schools to play at least one in-region, nonconference opponent in all sports that use NPI for selections starting in 2027-28. There will be a waiver process for schools that have scheduling complications. The council approved $4.18M in championship investments throughout the 2027-30 budget cycle that will now go before the Executive Board next week for final approval. Council Chair/Cal State San Marcos FAR Ben Cherry: “The council was intentional in balancing immediate championship needs with the flexibility to address future priorities, as opportunities present and initiatives develop. That approach allows us to strengthen the championship experience while remaining responsible stewards of the division’s resources.” (link) Other notable decisions…
➤ The council approved eliminated altitude conversions for track & field championship qualification starting in 2027-28 and backed noncontroversial legislation to allow staff to contact prospective student athletes during unofficial visits prior to June 15 before their junior year, provided they do not discuss athletic-related recruiting conversations.
➤ The council opposed membership put forward by the MIAA and GLVC that would allow men’s and women’s basketball programs to play their first season the Friday before the Monday 17 weeks before championship selections, as opposed to Monday, to allow programs to compete in region challenge events. The council cited additional demands on staff and facilities and expressed concern about how this would impact the Life in the Balance philosophy. Notably, the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Committees support the proposal to prevent multiple games within the same week and believe it aligns with the Life in the Balance philosophy to spread out competition and potentially reduce missed classes. Full proposal. (link)
#4: Sonoma State selects former Regis Women’s Basketball HC Molly Marrin as its new HC to lead the upstart Seawolves program. (link)
#3: Northwest Technical College will relocate to Bemidji State as part of a plan to eliminate $1M in annual facility expenditures and eliminate $10M in backlog deferred maintenance. The two institutions will remain separate and two NTC-specific facility projects are in the design phase. (link)
#2: Texas Woman’s broke ground on its new $30M Dr. Dawn S. Chaney Athletics Complex on Friday, with the project expected to be ready by the end of 2028. (link)
#1: Here are the latest NPI rankings for field hockey (link), football (link), men’s (link) and women’s (link) soccer and women’s volleyball (link).
