A few weeks after the end of the 2017 NCAA women’s volleyball season, we started tracking the coaching changes at Power Five schools. Now that we’re more than a week into January, there have been a number of hires — and some new openings popping up — so it’s about time for an update.

Here’s where we stand.

USC

During the NCAA Final Four, USC announced that Mick Haley would not return to coach the Trojan women's volleyball team, and last night, his successor was named: four-year Portland head women's volleyball coach Brent Crouch. In 2016, Crouch was named the West Coast Conference Coach of the Year. That season, he led the Pilots, who went winless the season before he took the job, to a 17-13 season, their best performance since becoming a Division I team.

Texas A&M

The Aggies chose former Kansas assistant Laura Kuhn to replace Laurie Corbelli, who resigned after the 2017 season. Kuhn, whose hiring was announced on December 30, most recently spent seven years as an assistant at Kansas, and was a big part of the Jayhawks’ appearance in the Final Four in 2015 and their first Big 12 title in 2016.

A three-year starter at Georgia Tech, Kuhn began her coaching career in 2007 at Appalachian State before spending three seasons at the University of Miami (FL). The Ohio native was named the AVCA Assistant Coach of the Year in 2015, her fifth season at Kansas.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma made its hire on Christmas Eve, announcing that it had chosen Kentucky assistant coach Lindsey Gray-Walton to replace Santiago Restrepo. The AVCA named Gray-Walton the 2017 Assistant Coach of the Year after she helped lead Kentucky to the Elite Eight in her eighth season with the program.

Like Kuhn, Gray-Walton played at Georgia Tech, where she was an All-ACC outside hitter. Before joining the Kentucky staff, she spent one season as an assistant at the College of Charleston.

Tennessee

No announcements have been made from the Tennessee Athletic Department about who will replace Rob Patrick, who resigned after the 2017 season.

South Carolina

Tom Mendoza just keeps moving on up. An associate head coach at Creighton from 2010 to 2015, Mendoza served as the High Point head coach for the past two seasons, earning an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament in 2017. And just a few days into the new year, Mendoza was announced as the new head coach at South Carolina, replacing Scott Swanson, who was dismissed midway through the 2017 season.

As a player, Mendoza spent three years at Newman University — where he earned NAIA All-America honors — before transferring to Lewis where he played for one year. Before joining the Creighton staff, Mendoza coached as Evansville and Michigan State.

Indiana

Indiana’s selection of Steve Aird to be the new Hoosier head coach was perhaps the most surprising hiring news of the season so far. Aird took the Maryland head coaching gig back in 2014, and in those four years he brought in nationally ranked recruiting classes and led the Terrapins to seven Big Ten wins in 2017, the team’s best since joining the conference.

Before taking the Maryland head coaching job, Aird served as an assistant at Penn State, Cincinnati, and Auburn. As a player, Aird was a two-year captain at Penn State.

With Aird leaving College Park, that creates a new Power Five opening to keep tabs on…

Maryland

Maryland has not announced a replacement for Aird, but it seems like one of the simplest solutions would be to promote associate head coach Adam Hughes and keep assistant coach Kristin Carpenter. 

Aird mentioned in an interview that he would love to bring his Maryland staff with him to Indiana, but Hughes’ wife is pregnant with their second child, and Carpenter is also pregnant, so both coaches' families might prefer to stay put.

Before coming to Maryland with Aird in 2014, Hughes was the director of operations at Penn State, and prior to that was a volunteer assistant at UC Irvine and Penn State. Carpenter played at Penn State and has coached at Virginia and Oklahoma before joining the Terrapin staff in 2017.

Boston College

There has been no update from Chestnut Hill as to a replacement for Chris Campbell, who resigned in November.

Mississippi State

Mississippi State was one of the first to fill its open head coach spot, announcing the hiring of former Jacksonville head coach Julie Darty on December 22. The four-year head coach accumulated a 58-60 overall record at Jacksonville from 2014 to 2017 and led her team to the ASUN championship in 2014.

For two years before taking the Jacksonville job, Darty was an associate head coach at South Carolina and an assistant at Villanova. The Oviedo, Florida, native graduated from Mercer in 2008 after leading the team in kills per set all four seasons.