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#10: Exploratory DIII member Regent will join the Coast-To-Coast in 2025-26 with the Royals to apply for DIII membership in January. Chancellor Gordon Robertson: “Regent University is pleased to join the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference. Conference membership is an important milestone in the strategic growth of the Regent Royals athletic program. We look forward to this new partnership as we continuously pursue Regent’s values of excellence, innovation, and integrity.” (link)
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#9: Maryville removes the interim tag from AD Andrew Wu, who has been leading the Scots since August. President Bryan Coker: “I can’t imagine a better individual for this role. Andrew Wu brings an ideal set of experiences — as an athletic director, coach, and student-athlete — all at liberal arts colleges. In his time as our interim director of athletics, Andrew has built strong relationships on- and off-campus, enhanced fundraising, and aligned the athletics budget with departmental priorities. […] Andrew views our impending transition to the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) not as a challenge to be overcome, but as an opportunity to be fully embraced. He is the right person at the right time to effectively lead our athletics programs, at this important moment in the College’s history.” Mammoth Sports Consulting assisted with the search. (link)
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#8: North Florida (DI) Dean of the College of Education and Human Services Steve Dittmore continues on the balance between athletics and enrollment as he zeroes in on the relationship between the overall percentage of student-athletes as part of enrollment and the growth of that percentage. Why? “So, if, as a way of growing enrollment, a campus adds a sport, it must also recognize it is adding expenses. If overall non-athlete enrollment does not also increase, it is possible the university is creating, or deepening, a negative financial situation. Of course, other factors are in play here.” Examining those schools with an athlete population of at least 44% and schools whose athlete enrollment grew by more than 10% between 2019-20 and 2022-23, Dittmore found 33 institutions who meet those criteria. Notable: “Amazingly, these 33 schools only added 35 sports during that period, an average of 1.06 per school. How can this be? I offer a couple hypotheses. First, these 33 schools might be losing non-athlete students at a disproportionate rate. Consider Fontbonne as an example. In 2019-20, the school reported 768 total undergraduate students. In 2022-23, the campus disclosed 612 total students. Its athlete raw numbers, meanwhile, increased from 224 to 385, meaning Fontbonne enrolled 544 non-athletes in 2019-20 compared to just 227 non-athletes in 2022-23. Second, it is possible we have not yet seen the impact for schools that added a lot of sports since the pandemic. The Division III schools which have added the most sports include Hobart and William Smith Colleges (12), Hiram College (9), Western Connecticut State University (7), Hilbert College (6), and the Milwaukee School of Engineering (6). None of them fall into the middle of the Venn diagram and only Hiram (51.5%) exceeds the 44 percent threshold.” (link)
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#7: Connecticut College highlights the newly-renovated Silfen Track & Field Stadium. Take a look. (link)
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#6: The 64-team Volleyball bracket is live with Juniata, Johns Hopkins, MIT and Emory as the top four seeds. The last four at-large teams in the bracket were Carnegie Mellon, William Smith, Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Centre, whose NPI was 0.048 better than Babson who was the first team out. (link - bracket, link - final NPI rankings)
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#5: The 40-team Football bracket has been released. The top eight teams are, in order, Saint John’s, Hardin-Simmons, Salisbury, SUNY Cortland, North Central (IL), Mount Union, DePauw and Lake Forest. (link)
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#4: Wittenberg President Mike Frandsen will depart the university at the end of the academic year. (link)
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#3: Maine Maritime AD Steve Peed will step down in January during the academy’s semester break after more than a dozen years at the helm. Football HC Bill Motolla will serve as Interim AD. (link)
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#2: Oberlin Assoc. AD for Communications & Compliance Mike Mancini appears to no longer be on staff after serving at the college since December 2007. (link)
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#1: Knox names Kenyon Assoc. AD Justin Newell as its new AD, starting February 3. President C. Andrew McGandey: “Justin’s desire to build relationships with members of the Knox and Galesburg communities, passion for Knox’s mission, and extensive experience in all facets of athletics administration position him well to lead the growth of Knox athletics in the years to come.” Parker Executive Search assisted with the process. (link)
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