The latest update to the Contact College Coaches databases is out. This is the April 2026 release, and yes — we’re running a little out of sequence on the calendar. The underlying data was compiled in mid-to-late May, the full update was completed in early June, and the refreshed files went out to subscribers on June 12th. We’re working hard to get back on cadence.
Across all sports and divisions, more than 5,300 rows carry at least one change flag in this release — new hires, departures, job changes, contact updates, and a handful of programs literally changing divisions. If you’re a recruit, a recruiting service, or a parent trying to keep your outreach list current, here’s what the numbers actually say about the state of college coaching staffs right now.
The Top-Line Numbers
This release covers 103,073 coaching and staff entries across 1,967 schools, 43 sports, and 5 divisions.
The changes break down like this:
- 1,582 new coaches added to the databases, including:
- 347 new head coaches (including 16 interim head coaches)
- 55 new associate head coaches
- 980 new assistant coaches (general, position-specific, and volunteer combined)
- 48 new Directors of Operations and 40 new Graduate Assistants
- 491 job changes — coaches who moved into a new role at the same school or within the same sport
- 2,525 outdated entries cleared out (coaches who left their listed program)
- 184 phone number updates and adjustments, 172 email updates and adjustments, 20 name changes
- 95 division reclassifications for programs that moved between divisions
In plain terms: this update gives subscribers more than 1,500 new doors to knock on that weren’t open last month, plus another 491 coaches who are now in fresh roles.
Featured New Head Coach Hires
Out of the 347 new head coaches in this release, 59 land at the D1 level — and a few names jump off the page. A small sample of notable new D1 head-coach entries:
- Mike Davis — Head Coach, Men’s Basketball, Mississippi Valley State University (the longtime D1 coach is now in the SWAC)
- Ryan Roberts — Head Coach, Women’s Gymnastics, Auburn University (SEC)
- Nicole Jones — Head Coach, Women’s Gymnastics, University of Nebraska (Big Ten)
- Khadijah Rushdan — Head Coach, Women’s Basketball, Delaware State University
- Erik Johnson — Head Coach, Women’s Basketball, University of Denver
- Bob Dunn — Head Coach, Women’s Basketball, Cleveland State University
- Jeff Hamilton — Head Coach, Men’s Ice Hockey, Yale University (Ivy League)
- Nick Oliver — Head Coach, Men’s Ice Hockey, St. Cloud State University
- Robin Goodman — Head Coach, Women’s Tennis, University of Missouri (SEC)
- Katarina Adamovic — Head Coach, Women’s Tennis, Oklahoma State University (Big 12)
These are people whose contact information is in the databases for the first time in this update — many still in their early weeks on the job, still building their staffs, still drafting their first recruiting boards. The window to be early in their inbox is now.
Basketball: 489 Brand-New Coaches to Contact
If you’re a basketball recruit, this is the update to act on. Combined across Men’s and Women’s Basketball:
- 489 brand-new coaches added to the databases
- 98 in-program job changes
- 1,303 total rows touched between the two sports
Women’s Basketball alone added 254 new hires, and Men’s Basketball added 235. Spring is when basketball staffs reset — head-coaching hires from March and April are now finalizing their assistant rosters, and those people are showing up in this update for the first time.
One interesting pattern on the women’s side: the Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) led all conferences in new Women’s Basketball hires with 21 new staff additions — more than the SEC’s 14. Mid-majors are quietly running aggressive hiring cycles. On the men’s side, the American Athletic Conference (AAC) led with 14 new hires.
→ Subscribers can grab the updated Men’s Basketball Coaches Database and Women’s Basketball Coaches Database now.
Get the Latest Files
→ Browse the full database lineup at contactcollegecoaches.com — every database in this update is available now. Active subscribers already have access; new subscribers get the current file immediately on signup.
Football Is Still Hiring — 351 New Coaches and 164 Promotions
Football leads every sport in this update, and it’s not close:
- 351 new coaches added (the most of any sport)
- 164 in-program job changes — also the most of any sport
The conference picture for football tells its own story. The Big 12 led all conferences in new football hires with 29 new staff additions, followed by the Big Ten (22), SWAC (18), Middle Atlantic Conference (18), ACC (14), and SIAC (12). The Big 12’s number is a reminder that the conference’s recent realignment-driven roster shuffle is still working its way through coaching staffs.
The 164 in-program job changes are the number football recruits should pay closest attention to: coordinators getting promoted, position coaches sliding to a different unit, analysts getting put on the field. If you reached out to a program last fall, there’s a real chance the person you should be emailing today is someone different — or the same person with a new title and a new area of responsibility. Title accuracy matters a lot in this sport, and this update gets it right.
→ Football Coaches Database is updated and ready to download.
Where the Hiring Is Happening: A Conference View
If you’re focused on a specific conference, here’s how the new-hire volume breaks down across the top of the table:
- Southeastern Conference (SEC): 66 new hires
- Big Ten Conference: 53 new hires
- Big 12 Conference: 49 new hires
- American Athletic Conference (AAC): 43 new hires
- Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC): 40 new hires
- Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC): 37 new hires
- California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA): 37 new hires
- Atlantic 10 Conference (A10): 31 new hires
- Sun Belt Conference: 29 new hires
The SEC’s 66 is the highest single-conference number in this release, but the spread is notable — eight different conferences each added 30+ new staff members. The CCCAA showing up alongside the Power 4 is a good reminder that the JuCo level (where the databases cover all subdivisions) is genuinely active.
Fall Sports: Volleyball and Soccer Staffs Are Locking In
The fall-sport calendar has its own rhythm — coaches need to be in place by August camp, which means hiring decisions are getting finalized right now:
- Women’s Soccer: 82 new hires
- Women’s Volleyball: 73 new hires
- Men’s Soccer: 58 new hires
These coaches are at their desks today, finalizing rosters and locking in their recruiting priorities for the class graduating next spring. If you’re a fall-sport recruit, this is exactly the window where being a known name in the inbox matters most. The Women’s Volleyball, Men’s Soccer, and Women’s Soccer databases all reflect the latest staffing.
Spring Sports: A Hiring Wave Still Building
Spring sports just wrapped their competitive seasons in late May, which means the next round of assistant-coach announcements is just beginning. This release captures the early part of that wave:
- Baseball: 38 new hires
- Softball: 33 new hires
- Women’s Tennis: 37 new hires
- Men’s Tennis: 29 new hires
- Women’s Lacrosse: 12 new hires
- Women’s Track and Men’s Track: 41 and 36 new hires respectively
The bigger spring-sport additions are expected in the next two updates as staffs finish their post-season hiring cycles. The contacts in this release are the foundation — start with these, and the next two updates will layer on more.
Division Moves: University of West Florida Heads to Division I
This release reclassified 95 rows worth of programs because the schools changed divisions. Two stories drove almost all of it:
- University of West Florida is officially in the databases as a Division I school now (with the football program tagged as FCS). UWF spent years in Division II, including a national-title-winning football run, and is now in the middle of a full-athletic-department transition up the ladder. 67 of the 95 division-move rows belong to UWF.
- Andrew College (Cuthbert, GA) moved from Junior College to NAIA, with 28 of its roster lines reclassified accordingly.
Division moves are a quietly important detail — a coach you found under “DII” last year may still be the right person, but the fit of the program (scholarship structure, schedule strength, academic profile) has changed materially. We update both the division flag and any of the school’s affiliated data points (conference, etc.) whenever a move like this is confirmed.
Behind the Scenes: Data Quality Work That Doesn’t Show Up in the “New Hire” Number
A real chunk of this update wasn’t about coaching turnover at all — it was foundational cleanup that makes the database more reliable going forward:
- 294 unique-ID consolidations — collapsing duplicate identifiers so the same coach across multiple programs/seasons is tracked as one person
- 88 school-name standardizations — fixing inconsistent naming (St. vs Saint, official rebrands, abbreviations) so search and filter work cleanly
- 184 phone number + 172 email updates and adjustments — keeping outreach actually reachable
If you’re building campaigns off the data (cold email, CRM imports, position-fit matching), these are the changes that quietly save you from bounce rates and duplicate outreach.
What This Means If You’re Using the Database
A few practical things for subscribers using this release:
- Basketball recruits, move now. Nearly 500 brand-new coaches were added between MBB and WBB. They’re newly in their roles, actively building their next recruiting class, and reachable today.
- Football: audit titles, not just names. The 164 in-program job changes mean the person you talked to before might still be there — but their role is different. Recheck before you send your next round of outreach.
- Fall-sport recruits, the window is now. Soccer and volleyball staffs are finalizing assignments before August camp. Reach out before they’re heads-down in pre-season.
- Spring-sport recruits, set your cadence. This release captures the front edge of post-season hiring. The next two updates will fill in the rest.
- Don’t sleep on the smaller sports. Tennis, swimming, cross country, and golf each added 20-40 new coaches. Smaller numbers, but much smaller competition for the coach’s attention too.
The next update will follow on a faster timeline as we close the calendar gap. As always, every active subscription pulls the newest version automatically.
The Contact College Coaches databases cover every NCAA, NAIA, and Junior College program in the country, refreshed monthly with verified contact information for head coaches, assistants, and athletic administrators. Subscribers can browse the full database lineup here, and don’t miss the newly-launched Athletic Administrators Database for AD, SID, and senior-staff contacts across every division.
