MIAA (Division III) Women’s Basketball Coach Salaries
Head coach pay at the nine Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) women’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. Men’s programs: MIAA men’s basketball coach salaries.
Key numbers
- Median head coach pay: about $59,000 across all nine programs (range midpoints, unconfirmed). Midpoints run from $55,000 to $100,000.
- The two highest ranges belong to coaches with a second job. Hope’s Brian Morehouse ($85,000–$115,000) is also director of DeVos Fieldhouse. Trine’s Andy Rang ($85,000–$110,000) was named permanent athletic director in July 2026 and keeps coaching.
- No women’s head coach changed this offseason that we could find. The newest are Adrian’s Sam Miller (hired July 2024) and Saint Mary’s Rob Hoffman (named 2024).
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope | Brian Morehouse | $85,000–$115,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Head coach since 1996 (30th season in 2025–26; 26–4). Also director of DeVos Fieldhouse, so the range likely covers both roles. Won national titles in 2006 and 2022 |
| Trine | Andy Rang | $85,000–$110,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Head coach since 2018–19; 2026 MIAA coach of the year. Named interim athletic director in March 2026 and permanent in July; continues as head coach |
| Calvin | Mark Christner | $65,000–$82,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | 16–11 in 2025–26, with three wins over top-10 Division III teams |
| Albion | Doreen Carden | $54,000–$68,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | 19–8 in 2025–26, a seven-win improvement |
| Alma | Sami Stormont | $52,000–$66,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Head coach since 2019; second-winningest coach in program history |
| Adrian | Sam Miller | $50,000–$65,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Hired July 2024 after Kathy Morris resigned following 31 seasons |
| Kalamazoo | Ryan Clark | $50,000–$65,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Since August 2023; a 2011 Kalamazoo graduate who previously coached Alma’s men’s team |
| Olivet | Peter Sabiiti | $48,000–$62,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Since 2021 |
| Saint Mary’s (Ind.) | Rob Hoffman | $48,000–$62,000 | Estimated range | Unconfirmed | Named 2024 after Melissa Makielski (coach since 2016); an all-women’s college |
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.
Women’s vs. men’s pay at the same school
| School | Men’s (midpoint) | Women’s (midpoint) | Men’s Ă· Women’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian | $66,500 | $57,500 | 1.2Ă— |
| Albion | $70,000 | $61,000 | 1.1Ă— |
| Alma | $67,500 | $59,000 | 1.1Ă— |
| Calvin | $82,000 | $73,500 | 1.1Ă— |
| Kalamazoo | $62,500 | $57,500 | 1.1Ă— |
| Olivet | $60,000 | $55,000 | 1.1Ă— |
| Trine | $85,000 | $97,500 | 0.9Ă— |
| Hope | $82,000 | $100,000 | 0.8Ă— |
Ratios compare estimates, so they are approximate. Saint Mary’s is omitted because it has no men’s team. At Hope and Trine the women’s range is higher than the men’s, probably because both women’s coaches hold a second administrative job. The league-wide median gap is about $68,750 (men’s) to $59,000 (women’s), about 1.2Ă—.
What the numbers show
- The women’s side has a two-tier structure. Hope and Trine sit roughly $24,000 or more above everyone else; the other seven midpoints fall between $55,000 and $73,500.
- Outside the dual-role jobs, women’s coaches are paid slightly less than men’s coaches. At the six other schools with both figures, men’s midpoints are 9% to 16% higher.
- Results and pay do not line up. Albion’s Carden (19–8) and Calvin’s Christner (16–11) sit in the middle of the pack, and Hope’s 26–4 team has the top range partly because of Morehouse’s second job.
- Federal data has a different order. Averaged across all women’s teams, Calvin ($71,175) pays head coaches the most and Olivet ($46,087) the least. Saint Mary’s does not appear in the federal file we used.
Assistant coach pay
We did not find a payroll record, contract or news report for any MIAA women’s assistant coach. A compiled file lists assistants and associate head coaches 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 women’s teams at each school (2024–25 reporting year), not basketball only and not individual salaries.
| School | Average head coach, women’s teams | Average assistant coach, women’s teams |
|---|---|---|
| Calvin | $71,175 | $37,989 |
| Hope | $61,202 | $43,850 |
| Trine | $57,530 | $32,819 |
| Kalamazoo | $56,284 | $21,592 |
| Adrian | $55,197 | $28,707 |
| Albion | $52,980 | $21,109 |
| Alma | $52,529 | $25,399 |
| Olivet | $46,087 | $21,748 |
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: seven in Michigan, plus Trine and Saint Mary’s in Indiana. 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, so most coaches are confirmed through the 2025–26 season and we found no change since.
Photo: Hope College women’s basketball players raise the 2006 NCAA Division III national championship trophy. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped.
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