{"id":268833,"date":"2026-04-15T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:40:18","slug":"ari-wideman-resigns-as-csub-womens-head-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268833\/","title":{"rendered":"Ari Wideman resigns as CSUB women\u2019s head basketball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 California State University, Bakersfield women\u2019s head basketball coach Ari Wideman has resigned, the university announced Tuesday night, just over a month after she was placed on paid administrative leave<\/a>. Wideman will remain with the program until April 21.<\/p>\n

Wideman was hired in May 2024 as the program\u2019s first Black female head coach<\/a>. Her hiring followed CSUB\u2019s decision not to renew the contract of longtime coach Greg McCall in March 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ray Alvardo was announced as interim head coach last month and will remain in the same role.<\/p>\n

Wideman finishes with a 9-51 record in two years with the program.<\/p>\n

Wideman\u2019s resignation comes as CSUB has seen a series of departures and coaching changes across its athletics programs over the past year.<\/p>\n

Rod Barnes stepped away from the men\u2019s basketball program in September 2025 after 14 seasons with the Roadrunners<\/a>. <\/p>\n

CSUB Director of Athletics Kyle Conder also departed that same month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The swimming and diving program has had several coaching changes, most recently when Director Eric Bugby announced his resignation in October 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In October 2025, two former CSUB softball players filed a lawsuit against CSUB<\/a>, alleging Olivarez and Davenport created a \u201csexually charged environment\u201d because they \u201copenly discussed their sex lives with the team\u201d between 2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n

In March 2025, CSUB softball player Violet Salazar posted a TikTok video alleging abuse by softball coaches<\/a>. Salazar accused Assistant Coach James Davenport of sexual assault, saying he grabbed her body after she showered, leaving a bruise. CSUB suspended softball head coach Letty Olivarez and Davenport. Davenport was no longer employed by the university as of October 2025.<\/p>\n

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The changes across CSUB athletics came around the same period as the September 2025 arrest of former CSUB assistant men\u2019s basketball coach Kevin Mays, who was accused of trafficking a woman across three states<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 California State University, Bakersfield women\u2019s head basketball coach Ari Wideman has resigned, the university announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-268833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}