Tennessee women’s basketball coach Kim Caldwell gave birth, the school announced on Thursday. Caldwell, who is in his first season in Tennessee, led the Lady Vols to a 15-3 file when she was pregnant.
In a statement On social networks, Tennessee said that Caldwell had not traveled with the team to Austin for Thursday’s match against Texas n ° 7 due to the birth of his son, Connor Scott Caldwell. Caldwell’s husband Justin is a member of the Men’s Basketball Men’s Basketball Team as a players’ development coordinator.
“Mom, dad and baby are doing well,” the team wrote in the press release. Deputy coach of Tennessee, Jenna Burdette, will take over as an acting chief coach during the absence of Caldwell, according to the school.
Caldwell is in his first season with the Lady Flights after being hired by the school in April. Tennessee has great expectations for Caldwell: a clause of her contract stipulates that the school will make it the best paid coach of the NCAA if it wins a national title.
But first, there was a problem: the 36-year-old head coach announced that she was pregnant job On X in September, shortly before the start of the 2024-2025 season.
“Faith in God includes faith in its timing,” wrote Caldwell in the message, before announcing that his baby would arrive during the winter.
Since then, Caldwell has led the team on a solid sequence of matches outside the conference, with some difficulties this month against opponents of the SEC. Lady Flights have suffered consecutive defeats against N ° 15 in Oklahoma (87-86) and N ° 5 of the LSU (89-87), losing the two games by a total of three points.
The third defeat of Tennessee was against Vanderbilt, not classified on Sunday, where the Lady Flights lost from one point, but Caldwell trained the match on Sunday during his last appearance before giving birth.
Lady Flights still have a busy schedule. After facing the Longhorns n ° 7, the remaining matches of Tennessee include clashes against the n ° 2 of the South Carolina, the No. 6 of Uconn and another match against the Tigers.
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