Kim Caldwell coached the Marshall University women’s basketball team to a 26-7 record and the NCAA Tournament to win the Furfari Award as the state’s top college coach. (Photo by AJ Henderson)
The premier college coach in West Virginia leads a program at the University of Tennessee.
Kim Caldwell, hired Sunday as head women’s basketball coach of the Volunteers, led Marshall to a 26-7 record, the Sun Belt Conference championship and its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1997 this season in her lone season with the Thundering Herd. The victory total was the most in program history.
For her effort, Caldwell was voted winner of the Furfari Award, named for longtime sports writer Mickey Furfari and presented by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.
Caldwell won the award twice before, in 2019 and 2022, while coach at Glenville State, where she won an NCAA Division II national title two seasons ago.
