Bethany College

Bethany College President Dr. Jamie Caridi has announced that Jen Windmiller '23 has been named Bethany's newest Director of Athletics in the fall of 2025. 

After serving as the Interim Director of Athletics in 2024, Windmiller leads Bethany Athletics into a new chapter by providing plenty of administrative and leadership experience. During her interim tenure, she has led with vision and integrity—enhancing academic support for student-athletes, strengthening our commitment to NCAA compliance, and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts across the department. Windmiller will now officially lead the Bison athletic department and its 23 varsity sports programs.

Windmiller first arrived at Bethany in the fall of 2021 where she was named the Assistant Women's Basketball Coach and quickly assumed the role of Assistant Director of Athletics for Academics and Compliance as well as Senior Woman Administrator in 2022. As an administrator, she helped pave the way to the College's highest student-athlete grade point average post-COVID-19 pandemic, has elevated Bethany's observance of NCAA Division III DEI Week, and has nominated countless Bison student-athletes for NCAA programs and scholarships including the annual NCAA Career in Sports Forum.

As Assistant Coach for the Bison, Windmiller helped lead the Green and White to a 15-11 record and a President's Athletic Conference Tournament Semifinal appearance. Prior to her time Bethany, she served as the Associate Head Women's Basketball Coach at Augustana (Ill.) College from 2015 to 2021 where she helped lead her alma mater to four College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Tournaments, and also served as the Head Women's Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at Blackburn (Ill.) College from 2011-15. 

Windmiller is a graduate of Augustana where she received a bachelor's degree in biology/pre-medicine in 2008 and earned her master's degree from Bethany in 2023.

Career Highlights

• Jen Windmiller was named the Interim Director of Athletics in 2024
• Windmiller joined the Bison staff in 2021 and was named the Senior Associate Director of Athletics in 2023
• Served as the department's Senior Woman Administrator and Compliance Officer 
• Served as the assistant women's basketball coach for the Bison in 2021-22
• Came to Bethany from her alma mater Augustana. She was named as Augustana women's basketball Associate Head Coach in July of 2015, joining the staff of Head Coach Mark Beinborn.
• Windmiller returned to her alma mater after five years at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, where she was women's basketball Head Coach, Senior Women's Administrator and Assistant Athletic Director.
• Windmiller spent four seasons as Head Coach at Blackburn, where she actively recruited, established a program identity and improved upon player development.  Among her administrative roles, she ran all game day operations for every sport and was focused on following NCAA compliance rules as an athletic department. 
• Prior to her head coaching role at Blackburn, she spent one season at Blackburn and two seasons at Augustana as an assistant coach. 
• Earned her BA in Biology/Pre-Medicine from Augustana College (2008) 
• Earned her Master's from Bethany College (2023)
• Currently resides in Bethany, W.Va.