Claremont-Mudd-Scripps posted today.  It seems that Jen Clark is no longer at CMS.  No post on the athletics page about her departure.  Another big west region job open.

Quote from: PlaySimple on December 30, 2021, 10:11:41 AM
Keri Sanchez has left Illinois Wesleyan for Colorado College after only serving one season for the Titans.

https://cctigers.com/news/2021/12/27/womens-soccer-four-time-ncaa-champion-and-us-national-team-player-keri-sanchez-named-womens-soccer-coach.aspx

I initially thought that this was a strange hire for Colorado College but it makes a lot of sense. Colorado College is a D3 school in all sports except men's hockey and women's soccer. Academically, it is more like a D3 school and has difficult admission standards. Sanchez has extensive coaching experience at the D3 level being that she was the HC at C-M-S for 13 years and last year at IWU. Additionally, she was a D1 AC at Oregon and Texas.

Sanchez was an excellent hire for IWU but she has an opportunity that would be difficult for her to pass up. If she was able to stay at IWU for a bit of time she more than likely would have been able to make a difference. Sanchez inherited a mess of a program at IWU due to the incompetence of the previous HC. He was a poor hire after Dave Barrett left to take the HC position at Fairfield after serving as the Titans' HC for 17 years. The success that the previous HC had at IWU was due solely to Barrett's work. IWU really needs to get the next hire right.

I heard from a source close to the program that both coaches, after Dave, struggled to imprint their style and wanted to push the students more, but were not supported by the administrative staff.  Early morning practice and fitness standards were met with resistance from the players and an AD willing to comply to keep the students happy.