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2025-26 women's college basketball coaching carousel

Talia-HS-white-300x300by: Talia Goodman03/11/26TaliaGoodmanWBB

As the 2025-26 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: 16

Jobs filled: 3

A-10

VCU

VCU parts with head coach Beth O’Boyle, Kirk Crawford named interim head coach (2/2)

ACC

Boston College

Boston College parts ways with Joanna Bernabei-McNamee (2/1)

Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh parts ways with Tory Verdi (3/3)

American

Memphis

Memphis has parted ways with Alex Simmons (3/9)

USF

Head coach Jose Fernandez accepts head coaching job with Dallas Wings, Michele Woods-Baxter named interim head coach (10/23)

ASUN

North Alabama

Candi Whitaker accepts Kansas City head coaching job (3/11)

Big Ten

Northwestern

Head coach Joe McKeown announces retirement following the 2025-26 season (3/24)

Penn State

Penn State parts ways with Carolyn Kieger (3/5)

Rutgers

Rutgers parts ways with head coach Coquese Washington (3/2)

Gary Redus named head coach (3/9)

C-USA

Kennesaw State

Kennesaw State parts ways with Octavia Blue (3/11)

Jacksonville State

Head coach Rick Pietri has retired (3/12)

New Mexico State

New Mexico State parts ways with Jody Adams (3/8)

New Mexico State hires Adeniyi Amadou (3/11)

Mountain West

Nevada

Nevada has parted ways with Amanda Levens (3/9)

SEC

Florida

Florida has parted ways with Kellie Ray Finley (3/9)

Summit

Kansas City

Kansas City parts ways with Dionnah Jackson-Durrett (3/6)

Kansas City hires Candi Whitaker (3/11)

St. Thomas

Ruth Sinn announces retirement following the 2025-26 season (2/10)

Sun Belt

Georgia State

Gene Hill resigns as head coach (3/12)

Pac-12

Texas State

Texas State has parted ways with Zenarae Antoine (3/9)

WCC

Denver

Denver parts ways with Doshia Woods (3/10)

Seattle

Seattle parted ways with Skyler Young (3/2)