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The top ten trending jobs of the week...
#10: Lawrence: Assistant AD for Athletic Communications
#9: Swarthmore: Assistant Men’s Lacrosse Coach
#8: Stevenson: Coordinator of Athletic Communications
#7: Catholic: Assistant Director of Facilities/Operations and External Rentals
#6: RPI: Director of Sport Performance and Wellness
#5: RPI: Assistant Director of Athletic Facilities, Equipment & Operations
#4: Shenandoah: Director of Athletics
#3: Fitchburg State: Staff Assistant, Athletics Equipment & Operations Manager
#2: Trinity (CT): Head Men’s & Women’s Cross Country Coach
#1: St. Joseph’s (Brooklyn): Director of Athletics Media Relations
#10: Next week, DII and DIII presidents and chancellors will meet to discuss the impact of athletics on their campuses, higher education funding and affordability, enrollment pressures and more to “help inform future divisional strategic planning and potential changes in legislation or policy. Meeting attendees will include the Division II Executive Board, Division III Presidents Council, presidents from Division II conferences not represented on the Executive Board, Division III Presidents Advisory Group, and select national office staff.” (link)
#9: Otterbein hires former Kenyon Asst. AD/Women’s Soccer HC/SWA Kelly Bryan as Assoc. AD for Internal Operations. (link)
#8: Centre announces an anonymous $225M donation to launch a $450M Pillars of Excellence campaign, with $350M already raised. Notably, athletics and competitive excellence are one of the six priority areas, with the goal of “strengthening facilities and supporting scholar-athletes.” (link)
#7: Last week, the DIII Analysis Working Group met and discussed its new eligibility case study, the age-based proposal, playing seasons, financial benchmarking and more. The working group will continue past the 2027 NCAA Convention and continue through June 2027. The group will not add any new members, citing historical knowledge and past meeting participation. Here’s what you need to know…
➤ Feedback to the eligibility case study (which you can find here) has been positive. The group decided to not take a position on the age-based eligibility proposal, citing concerns that taking a position would undermine the usage of the aforementioned case study and that it would take time for the membership to evaluate the proposal before taking a position.
➤ With the latest review of playing and practice seasons occurring a few years ago, the group continues to view this as a high-priority topic, since the latest membership survey found most schools are using the maximum number of competitions and days. Further, the working group is working to develop questions for the 2027 membership survey to “better understand membership concerns in this area and allow the working group and governance structure to properly develop potential action steps to mitigate existing tensions.”
➤ As for NCAA tech centralization, “The concept is to build an NCAA-owned open API layer, starting with the NCAA ID, that connects major athletics management platforms (Teamworks, Front Rush, etc.) to NCAA systems for single-source eligibility, roster, and compliance data. The working group acknowledged that this concept would need more time to implement, and a resolution solely at the national level may not be sufficient. The group directed staff to engage the NCAA IT department to better understand the capability and time needed to develop this concept.”
➤ In discussing financial peer benchmarking, the group believes the value does not outweigh the burden on staff to provide accurate and useful data. “Generally, the group thought this concept could be more valuable at the conference level. It also directed staff to develop and share best practices with the membership.” (link)
#6: The American Rivers announces the Riverbend Bowl Series, a two-game postseason event held at Neenah High School on November 21. The NACC will be one of the teams participating in the Riverbend Bowl Series. (link, link); A-R-C Commissioner Marie Stroman joined The Left Hash Call’s Seth Howard to discuss the new event, as The Left Hash Call will be the Riverbend Bowl Series’ official media partner. Here are some of the most notable takeaways…
➤ The A-R-C will have a bid along with other nearby conferences that will be selected depending on each league’s AQ selection process to determine what the next team in would be. “If we go down a certain level for a conference, there's kind of a cutoff. We're not going to take up to two past what you would send to the NCAAs. So we have scenarios built in; if we need to plug a new team in, A-R-C actually gets that next bid.” The four participants will be matched up by NPI, with the top two and bottom two teams facing off to try to create more parity.
➤ Why the Fox Cities region? First, the league looked to the NCAA’s 500-mile rule as an initial guide, with Fox Cities having experience previously hosting the DIII Baseball World Series and Fox Cities CVB Director of Sports Marketing Matt Ten Haken being a former DIII student-athlete at Wisconsin-La Crosse.
➤ On creating an elevated postseason experience for student-athletes: “There's this element of almost just being in awe and just stepping into a venue and just knowing that there is extra care taken into the event. ... The headquarter hotel for this event is literally made for football teams. It's where the NFL teams stay when they play the Green Bay Packers. Those are the kinds of little things that the fans may not see, but the student-athletes, as they go through it, like, wow, this is extra and this is important. Those are the things we're trying to build into it, as well as being sustainable because money is a thing and we want this event to keep happening.” (link)
#5: The CUNYAC will now be known as the CITY Collegiate Conference, starting in 2027-28. Brooklyn AD/CITY Collegiate Conference AD Council Chair Erik Smiles: “The creation of the City Collegiate Conference will help elevate the student athlete experience by securing our paths in multiple team sports to the NCAA Tournament, increasing participation numbers in individual sport conference championships, improve the level of competition within the conference and limiting travel for our student athletes allowing them to have the proper balance of academics and athletics.” Skye Design assisted with the rebrand. (link)
#4: Edgewood breaks ground on its new $30M, 40-acre Athletics and Wellness Campus minutes from campus. The complex will include competition space for baseball, lacrosse, soccer, softball and track & field, with an indoor golf facility and more. (link)
#3: North Central College will officially change its name to North Central University Naperville starting July 1, 2027. (link)
#2: Maryville announces it will depart the SAA after joining the league in 2024 to rejoin the CCS starting in 2027. President Bryan Coker: “We are honored to reunite with our very good friends in the CCS. The Collegiate Conference of the South is growing and thriving in this disruptive era for intercollegiate athletics. We know the CCS and its member institutions well, and we are certain that the CCS's future looks incredibly bright. … While the SAA was the right conference choice for Maryville in 2024, we believe the CCS is the best option for us now and for the future. We were honored to join and compete amongst the SAA's institutions, and we wish the conference all the best, moving forward.” (link)
#1: Check out the updated NPI rankings for field hockey (link), football (link), men’s (link) and women’s (link) soccer and women’s volleyball (link).
