| Kim Caldwell | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Tennessee |
| Current Conference: | SEC |
| Contract: | $750,000[1] |
| Birth Date: | 24 November 1988 |
| Birth Place: | Parkersburg, West Virginia |
| Player Years1: | 2007–2011 |
| Player Team1: | Glenville State |
| Coach Years1: | 2011–2013 |
| Coach Team1: | Ohio Valley (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 2013–2016 |
| Coach Team2: | Sacramento State (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 2016–2023 |
| Coach Team3: | Glenville State |
| Coach Years4: | 2023–2024 |
| Coach Team4: | Marshall |
| Coach Years5: | 2024–present |
| Coach Team5: | Tennessee |
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 Sun Belt Conference (SBC) Coach of the Year[2] and received the Maggie Dixon Award as the top Division I rookie head coach in 2024.[3] Prior to Marshall, Caldwell made a name for herself as coach of the Glenville State Pioneers. 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.[4]
Caldwell played high school basketball at Parkersburg South High School under her father, Scott Stephens.[5] As a collegiate player at Glenville State, 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.[6]
Sources[7]
| Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007–08 | Glenville State | 28 | 109 | 45.2% | 66.7% | 65.0% | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 3.9 | |
| 2008–09 | Glenville State | 28 | 163 | 41.6% | 25.0% | 80.5% | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 5.8 | |
| 2009–10 | Glenville State | 33 | 155 | 31.8% | 27.0% | 77.8% | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 5.5 | |
| 2010–11 | Glenville State | 33 | 247 | 35.1% | 35.1% | 33.3% | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.7 | - | 7.5 | |
| Career | 117 | 674 | 37.3% | 31.9% | 67.0% | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 5.8 |
In 2016, Caldwell was hired as head women's basketball coach at her alma mater, Glenville State, after serving as an assistant at Sacramento State and a graduate assistant at Ohio Valley.[8] In 2022, she led the Pioneers to the NCAA Division II tournament championship.[9]
On March 27, 2023, Caldwell was named head coach at Marshall.[10] 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.[11] Given her performance at Marshall, Caldwell was named by SBC head coaches as the league's 2024 coach of the year[2] and by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association as the 2024 recipient of the Maggie Dixon Award as the top first-year head coach in Division I women's basketball.[12] [13]
On April 7, 2024, after one season at Marshall, Caldwell was named the head coach at Tennessee,[14] becoming the first non-Tennessee alum to lead the program since Pat Summitt (a UT Martin graduate).
Glenville State University
Marshall University