MIAA (Division III) Men’s Basketball Coach Salaries
Head coach pay at the eight Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) men’s basketball programs, an NCAA Division III conference, for 2026–27. (This is the Michigan league, not the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in Kansas.) All nine member schools are private colleges, so none publishes what its coaches earn. Every dollar figure below is labeled Unconfirmed, and each is an estimated range from a compiled conference file, not an individual salary. Women’s programs: MIAA women’s basketball coach salaries.
Key numbers
- Median head coach pay: about $68,750 across the eight programs (range midpoints, unconfirmed). Midpoints run from $60,000 (Olivet) to $85,000 (Trine).
- One men’s head coach is new: Jamison Webster at Adrian, named April 21, 2026 after Tim Kaiser stepped down in March. Trine’s Jon VanderWal (from Marietta) is in his second season; the other six coaches have been in place since 2023 or earlier.
- The league’s coach of the year has the lowest midpoint. Olivet’s Sam Hargraves was named 2026 MIAA coach of the year after the Comets won the regular-season title, and his range ($52,000–$68,000) is the lowest in the league.
- No MIAA pay figure here is confirmed from a contract, payroll record or news report. Treat every number as approximate.
Head coach pay by school
| School | Head coach | Pay | Basis | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trine | Jon VanderWal | $75,000–$95,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Second season. Hired spring 2025 from Marietta to replace Brooks Miller (now at Central Michigan); 20–8 in his first year |
| Hope | Greg Mitchell | $72,000–$92,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Head coach since 2014; won his 200th game in November 2025. Hope won the 2026 MIAA tournament |
| Calvin | Bill Sall | $72,000–$92,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Since 2019, after six seasons at Northern Michigan. 2025 MIAA coach of the year; 19–8 in 2025–26 |
| Albion | Jody May | $62,000–$78,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | 18 seasons through 2025–26 (225–221) |
| Alma | Mike Fitzpatrick | $60,000–$75,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Hired May 2023 from Case Western Reserve |
| Adrian | Jamison Webster | $58,000–$75,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Named April 21, 2026; a 2016 Adrian graduate and former Tecumseh High School coach. Tim Kaiser stepped down in March 2026 |
| Kalamazoo | Nick Giard | $55,000–$70,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Since 2019, from Williams College |
| Olivet | Sam Hargraves | $52,000–$68,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Since 2019. 2026 MIAA coach of the year; Olivet won the regular-season title |
Sorted by pay (midpoint where a range is given). “Unconfirmed” means we found no payroll record, contract or news report behind the figure; it comes from a compiled conference file. “Estimated range” figures are not individual salaries. Saint Mary’s (Indiana) is a women’s college with no men’s team.
What the numbers show
- Pay is tightly grouped. All eight midpoints fall within a $25,000 band, from $60,000 to $85,000.
- Success is not showing up in the ranges. Olivet’s Hargraves, the 2026 coach of the year, has the lowest midpoint. Trine’s VanderWal has the highest ($85,000), with Hope and Calvin tied behind him at $82,000.
- Nothing can be checked. Private colleges do not file public payroll records, and IRS Form 990 itemizes only each school’s highest-paid officers and key employees, so basketball coaches rarely appear.
- Federal data has a different order. Averaged across all men’s teams, Adrian ($80,525) pays head coaches the most and Olivet ($55,332) the least. Those figures include football and every other sport.
Assistant coach pay
We did not find a payroll record, contract or news report for any MIAA men’s assistant coach. A compiled file lists assistants at roughly $24,000 to $52,000, but we could not confirm any of it, so no assistant figures are published here.
School-wide averages (federal data)
Every college that offers athletics reports average coach pay to the U.S. Department of Education. These are averages per full-time coach across all men’s teams at each school (2024–25 reporting year), not basketball only and not individual salaries.
| School | Average head coach, men’s teams | Average assistant coach, men’s teams |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian | $80,525 | $51,638 |
| Calvin | $76,161 | $38,368 |
| Hope | $73,922 | $46,490 |
| Alma | $62,684 | $36,759 |
| Albion | $62,628 | $26,685 |
| Trine | $60,491 | $42,359 |
| Kalamazoo | $57,824 | $32,929 |
| Olivet | $55,332 | $35,037 |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act data, 2024–25 (ope.ed.gov/athletics).
Data notes
- All nine member schools are private (Trine is in Indiana and Saint Mary’s is in Indiana; the rest are in Michigan). Every range comes from a compiled conference file, which labeled them “verified”; we found nothing to support that, so we treat them as unconfirmed.
- Coaches were checked against school athletics sites, announcements and news coverage through November 2026. The league’s 2026–27 basketball preseason poll was not out when we checked.
Photo: Calvin University’s Van Noord Arena and athletic buildings, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Gpwitteveen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped.
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