Andrea Caligiana
Andrea Caligiana enters his fourth season at Middle Tennessee starting his new role as Associate Head Coach. Coach Cali was previously an assistant coach at Wake Forest, University of New Mexico and Wichita State. Caligiana played college tennis at Wichita State University.
Coach Cali has many years of experience in coaching different ages and level. Other than coaching at the collegiate level, Cali coached and ran many junior and adult clinics.
Caligiana joined the MTSU coaching staff under head coach Jimmy Borendame in the Fall of 2020. In his first season assisting the men’s tennis program, he helped the Blue Raiders capture the 2021 Conference USA title, a 17-8 record, and reached a high ranking of ITA No. 34 in the country. Francisco Rocha was able to compete in the NCAA singles in 2021. One of Caligiana’s main duties is recruiting, in his first season, helped MT secure the #2 mid-major class and the #33 class nationally, according to tennisrecruting.net.
In the 2021-22 season, Caligiana helped the program capture a 3-peat in the Conference USA Championship, the third school in C-USA history to reach this feat. The program finished the regular season with a 27-4 record, the most wins and best record in program history. Helped the Raiders earn an ITA ranking of No. 15 during the season, the highest MT team ranking in over 40 years. Caligiana assisted the development of six ITA individually ranked Raiders during the season, including No.21 and No. 23 ITA doubles and No. 30, No. 38, No.101, No.106 in singles, all six starters were named C-USA Players of the Week, the first time in program history. Francisco Rocha and Oskar Brostrom were able to compete in the NCAA doubles in 2022. MTSU finished the 2022 season as a second round NCAA team and ended the year ranked #20 in the nation. Cali helped the Blue Raiders achieve the #3 mid-major recruiting class, with the signing of Ondrej Horak, Shu Matsuoka, and Marcel Kamrowski, that class landed them at #23 nationally.
In the 2022-23 season, Caligiana assisted the Blue Raiders to win their fourth straight Conference USA Championship becoming the second school in C-USA history to earn a 4-peat. The team's highest ranking was at No. 21. MTSU picked up two big wins against No. 19 Duke and No. 19 Northwestern, the first wins over over both teams in the program history. Ondrej Horak was was named C-USA Freshman of the Year and Stijn Slump was tabbed C-USA Player of the Year. Caligiana helped bring in another big recruiting class for next season with four transfers and a freshman coming in. He assisted Stijn to qualify for the NCAA Singles Tournament. MTSU ended the season with a 22-8 record and reached the NCAA second round for the second straight season.
Before his time at Middle Tennessee, Andrea Caligiana was an assistant coach at the University of New Mexico for the 2020 spring. During the Fall 2019, Caligiana was an assistant coach at his alma matter, Wichita State University, where he worked with the All-American doubles team of Murkel Dellien and Marius Frosa. A Perugia, Italy, native, Caligiana finished up his senior year at Wichita State in 2019. In his three seasons with the Shockers, he finished with a 22-19 singles record and 23-25 in doubles record overall playing mostly at the #1 and #2 positions. Andrea graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sport Management, earning Summa Cum Laude.
