The coaching carousel continues to spin well for top assistants in Division I women’s volleyball as Washington, Arizona State and Kansas State filled their coaching openings in the past week.
Washington promoted longtime assistant Leslie Gabriel.
Arizona State hired USC assistant JJ Van Niel.
And Kansas State hired Washington assistant Jason Mansfield.
All will be college head coaches for the first time.
It continues a trend in which assistants are being hired. The major exception was Keegan Cook leaving Washington for Minnesota, which created the opening for Gabriel.
Other top assistants who have moved into head coaching jobs in the past weeks include San Diego’s Alfee Reft going to UCLA, Pitt’s Lindsey Behonick going to Oregon State, Colorado State promoting Emily Kohan, and Kentucky’s Anders Nelson going to Vanderbilt to start that program from scratch.
Fresno State also hired an assistant, Leila Rosen of Michigan, who has coached with her husband, Mark, for 24 years. Mark Rosen was fired earlier this month.
Texas A&M tabbed Jamie Morrison, who was not with another program but has been an assistant at many.
A handful of openings remain, not the least of which are, of course, Michigan, and Loyola Marymount, created when head coach Aaron…
