KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — University of Tennessee Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics Danny White and Chancellor Donde Plowman welcomed new Lady Vol basketball head coach Kim Caldwell to Rocky Top, introducing her on Tuesday afternoon at a press conference in the Ray and Lucy Hand Digital North Studio.
Caldwell, who has a 217-31 career record with eight NCAA Tournament berths in eight seasons as a head coach, most recently led Marshall University to a school-best 26-7 overall record and 17-1 league mark in her first year there in 2023-24. She was named the 2024 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year and the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year after directing the Thundering Herd to both the league’s regular season and tournament titles as well as the school’s second NCAA Tournament berth ever and first since 1997.
Prior to that, she served as head coach at NCAA Division II Glenville State, leading her alma mater to a pair of DII Final Four appearances and the 2022 national championship. From 2016-23, she directed GSU to six Mountain East Conference regular season titles (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023) and four MEC Tournament trophies (2018, 2019, 2020, 2023), earning MEC Coach of the Year honors four times in 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023, and accepting the WBCA’s Pat Summitt Trophy as the NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year in 2022.
