Kim Caldwell
Kim Caldwell (née Stephens) 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]
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Tennessee |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 0–0 (–) |
| Annual salary | $750,000[1] |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Parkersburg, West Virginia |
| Playing career | |
| 2007–2011 | Glenville State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2011–2013 | Ohio Valley (assistant) |
| 2013–2016 | Sacramento State (assistant) |
| 2016–2023 | Glenville State |
| 2023–2024 | Marshall |
| 2024–present | Tennessee |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 217–31 (.875) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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| Awards | |
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Playing career edit
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]
Glenville State statistics edit
Sources[7]
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| 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 |
Coaching career edit
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).
Head coaching record edit
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenville State Pioneers (Mountain East Conference) (2016–2022) | |||||||||
| 2016–17 | Glenville State | 24–6 | 18–4 | 1st | NCAA Division II First Round | ||||
| 2017–18 | Glenville State | 31–2 | 22–0 | 1st | NCAA Division II Second Round | ||||
| 2018–19 | Glenville State | 30–3 | 21–1 | 1st | NCAA Division II Second Round | ||||
| 2019–20 | Glenville State | 26–5 | 19–3 | 1st | NCAA Division II (Cancelled) | ||||
| 2020–21 | Glenville State | 12–4 | 10–2 | 2nd | NCAA Division II First Round | ||||
| 2021–22 | Glenville State | 35–1 | 22–0 | 1st | NCAA Division II Champions | ||||
| 2022–23 | Glenville State | 33–3 | 20–2 | 1st | NCAA Division II Final Four | ||||
| Glenville State: | 191–24 | 132–12 | |||||||
| Marshall Thundering Herd (Sun Belt Conference) (2023–2024) | |||||||||
| 2023–24 | Marshall | 26–7 | 17–1 | 1st | NCAA Division I First Round | ||||
| Marshall: | 26–7 | 17–1 | |||||||
| Tennessee Lady Vols (Southeastern Conference) (2024–present) | |||||||||
| 2024–25 | Tennessee | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
| Tennessee: | 0–0 | 0–0 | |||||||
| Total: | 217–31 | ||||||||
| National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||
Honors edit
Team edit
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 edit
- Pat Summitt Trophy (WBCA NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year): 2021–22[15]
- 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 edit
- ^ Wilson, Mike (April 7, 2024). "Kim Caldwell agrees to five-year contract worth $3.75 million as Lady Vols basketball coach". knoxnews.com. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
- ^ a b "Sun Belt Announces 2024 Women's Basketball Awards & All-Conference Teams" (Press release). Sun Belt Conference. March 4, 2024. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ^ Auerbach, Nicole; Merola, Lauren (2024-04-07). "Tennessee hiring Marshall's Kim Caldwell as women's basketball coach". The Athletic. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ "The End of the Historic Kim Stephens Era". 27 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ^ Bennett, Jay (November 23, 2020). "A giant passes: Former Parkersburg South coach Scott Stephens loses battle with tumor". The Parkersburg News and Sentinel. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ^ "Kim Stephens - Women's Basketball Coach - Glenville State College Athletics". 27 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ^ "NCAA Statistics". NCAA.ORG. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
- ^ "Kim Stephens Selected as New Head Women's Basketball Coach". gstatepioneers.com. June 21, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ^ Carey, Greg (March 28, 2022). "'Our girls felt like absolute rock stars': Importance of National Championship starting to settle in for Stephens and Pioneers". WV Metro News. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ^ "Marshall University names West Virginia native Kim Stephens new women's basketball coach". WV News. March 27, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ^ Hodousek, Carrie (March 12, 2024). "Marshall women's basketball coach reflects on win over JMU before heading to NCAA Tournament". WV Metro News. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ^ Auerbach, Nicole; Merola, Lauren (2024-04-07). "Tennessee hiring Marshall's Kim Caldwell as women's basketball coach". The Athletic. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ "Marshall's Kim Caldwell Named 2024 Spalding® Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. April 3, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
- ^ Trainer, Eric (April 7, 2024). "Tennessee Selects Caldwell To Lead Storied Lady Vol Basketball Program". UTSports.com. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
- ^ "GLENVILLE STATE'S KIM STEPHENS NAMED 2022 WBCA NCAA DIVISION II NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR". WBCA. March 23, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
External links edit
- Marshall Thundering Herd bio