Kim Caldwell () is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers. She previously served in the same role at Marshall for one season, where she was named the

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(SBC) Coach of the Year and received the

Maggie Dixon Award The Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Award is an award given annually since 2007 to the head coach in women's college basketball in the NCAA NCAA Division I, Division I competition who achieves great success in their first year as ...

as the top Division I rookie head coach in 2024. Prior to Marshall, Caldwell made a name for herself as coach of the

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. During her seven-year tenure there, the team won six regular season conference championships, four conference tournament championships, made six NCAA Division II Tournament appearances, and won the 2022 NCAA Division II National Championship.

Playing career

Caldwell played high school basketball at

Parkersburg South High School Parkersburg South High School (also known as South) in Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States serves grades 9 through 12, and is part of the Wood County School District. The school's colors are navy blue and white (with a touch of scarlet), ...

under her father, Scott Stephens. As a collegiate player at

Glenville State Glenville State University (GSU) is a public college in Glenville, West Virginia. History Glenville State University was founded in 1872 as a branch of West Virginia Normal School. It became known as Glenville State Normal School. It served th ...

, Caldwell was named team captain of the Pioneers in 2010–11 on a team that won a WVIAC conference championship and earned a berth to the NCAA Tournament. In 2011, she earned WVIAC Student-Athlete of the Year honors. She majored in sport management with a minor in psychology.

Glenville State statistics

Sources

Coaching career

In 2016, Caldwell was hired as head women's basketball coach at her alma mater,

, after serving as an assistant at

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and a graduate assistant at Ohio Valley. In 2022, she led the Pioneers to the NCAA Division II tournament championship. On March 27, 2023, Caldwell was named head coach at Marshall. During her first and ultimately only season at Marshall, she led the Thundering Herd to their first NCAA Division I tournament since 1997 after defeating James Madison in the Sun Belt tournament championship. Given her performance at Marshall, Caldwell was named by SBC head coaches as the league's 2024 coach of the year and by the

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as the 2024 recipient of the

as the top first-year head coach in Division I women's basketball. On April 7, 2024, after one season at Marshall, Caldwell was named the head coach at Tennessee, becoming the first non-Tennessee alum to lead the program since

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graduate).

Head coaching record

Honors

Team

Glenville State University * Mountain East Conference regular season champion: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 * Mountain East Conference tournament champions: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 * NCAA Division II Champions: 2022 Marshall University * Sun Belt Conference regular season champion: 2024 * Sun Belt Conference tournament champions: 2024

Individual

* Pat Summitt Trophy (WBCA NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year): 2021–22 * Maggie Dixon Award (WBCA rookie coach of the year in NCAA Division I): 2023–24 * Mountain East Conference Coach of the Year: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23 * Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year: 2023–24 * Furfari Award (West Virginia's College Coach of the Year): 2019, 2022 * WBCA Coaches Thirty Under 30: 2016–17

References

External links

Tennessee Lady Volunteers bio

Marshall Thundering Herd bioGlenville State Lady Pioneers bio
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