Women's Swimming and Diving
Caldwell, Amanda
Amanda Caldwell
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- acaldwell2@tulane.edu
- Phone:
- 862-8205
Amanda Caldwell came to Uptown in September of 2022 after four years as the head coach at Georgia Southern.
Tulane finished the 2024-25 season with 54 top 10 school marks including 10 school records. The team also won six events, had 28 overall all conference marks, a placing of third overall at the league championship meet with 1234.50 pts. plus saw Coach Caldwell along with her staff of Assistant Coach Canaan Campbell and Diving Coach Justin Moser earn the AAC’s Coaching Staff of the Year honors. The program also had 10 qualify to participate in the National Championship Invitational (NIC) on the season, three divers that earned bids to the Zone Diving Championships and had four swimmer named to the Academic All-District by the College Sports Communicators (CSC). The team also earned an in-season ranking of No. 38 by Swim Cloud after a strong start to the campaign.
Tulane’s swimming program had an outstanding 2023-24 season that resulted in 64 lifetime bests, 31 all-time top-10 school marks, four school records, an AAC individual title, an AAC Freshman of the Year Award, 11 National Invite Championship Qualifiers, a Zone Diver Qualifier and an NCAA qualifier.
The 2022-23 season was a building campaign that saw the Green Wave place ninth overall at the AAC Championships, qualify six to the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) Championships plus earn a selection as a CSCAA Scholar All-American Team.
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In 2021, the Eagles boasted their first individual conference champion (200 IM) in the past 10 years and qualified their most student athletes for the National Invitational Championship (NIC) meet. Georgia Southern was also the top-ranked Division I swimming and diving program in community outreach, as ranked by Helper Helper.
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In her third season with the Eagles, Caldwell helped guide the Georgia Southern to a sixth-place finish in the CCSA Championships and posted six different school records. Annamaria Hornyak dominated the 2020-21 season under coach Caldwell, earning CCS Freshman Swimmer of the Year. Hornyak also won multiple Swimmer of the Week awards, while her and Katie Knight swept the final week of voting.
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In her second season as the head coach at Georgia Southern, Caldwell had 12 personal records broken in the final day of the CCSA Championships. Caldwell has had multiple conference swimmers and divers of the week, as well as seeing Elizabeth Chemey earn Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-District Honors.
In 2019, the Eagles finished fourth in the CCSA Championships hosted in Lynchburg, Va. Anna Moers advanced from the CCSA Championship and earned an invite to the CSCAA National Invitational, racing in four events over a three-day period. Moers advanced to one final heat and earned 13 points for the Eagles during those events.
Prior to her stint at Georgia Southern was a six-year run as an assistant coach at Rice University.
During her time at Rice, the Owls captured two Conference USA titles, as well as the 2014 CSCAA (Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America) Invitational Championships. Individually, Rice swimmers captured 28 C-USA meet titles in six seasons and the school qualified swimmers for seven different NCAA Championship events in those seasons.
Caldwell was also the recipient of the prestigious Jean Freeman Scholarship from the CSCAA in 2018, given annually to assistant coaches whose exceptional contributions have brought recognition to their college or university.
Prior to joining Rice, Caldwell served as a volunteer assistant coach at Georgia Tech for one season, while also coaching for the Dynamo Swim Club in Atlanta. A four-year letterwinner at Youngstown State, Caldwell received her bachelor's degree in 2006 and was recently named a Bitonte College of Health and Human Services Distinguished Alumni. She earned her master's degree from James Madison University in 2008.
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A native of Martins Ferry, Ohio, Caldwell is a 2001 graduate of Martins Ferry High School. She is a certified member of the American Swim Coaches Association (Level II) and a member of United States Swimming.
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Caldwell and her husband Beau have one daughter, Ella.
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Tulane finished the 2024-25 season with 54 top 10 school marks including 10 school records. The team also won six events, had 28 overall all conference marks, a placing of third overall at the league championship meet with 1234.50 pts. plus saw Coach Caldwell along with her staff of Assistant Coach Canaan Campbell and Diving Coach Justin Moser earn the AAC’s Coaching Staff of the Year honors. The program also had 10 qualify to participate in the National Championship Invitational (NIC) on the season, three divers that earned bids to the Zone Diving Championships and had four swimmer named to the Academic All-District by the College Sports Communicators (CSC). The team also earned an in-season ranking of No. 38 by Swim Cloud after a strong start to the campaign.
Tulane’s swimming program had an outstanding 2023-24 season that resulted in 64 lifetime bests, 31 all-time top-10 school marks, four school records, an AAC individual title, an AAC Freshman of the Year Award, 11 National Invite Championship Qualifiers, a Zone Diver Qualifier and an NCAA qualifier.
The 2022-23 season was a building campaign that saw the Green Wave place ninth overall at the AAC Championships, qualify six to the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) Championships plus earn a selection as a CSCAA Scholar All-American Team.
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In 2021, the Eagles boasted their first individual conference champion (200 IM) in the past 10 years and qualified their most student athletes for the National Invitational Championship (NIC) meet. Georgia Southern was also the top-ranked Division I swimming and diving program in community outreach, as ranked by Helper Helper.
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In her third season with the Eagles, Caldwell helped guide the Georgia Southern to a sixth-place finish in the CCSA Championships and posted six different school records. Annamaria Hornyak dominated the 2020-21 season under coach Caldwell, earning CCS Freshman Swimmer of the Year. Hornyak also won multiple Swimmer of the Week awards, while her and Katie Knight swept the final week of voting.
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In her second season as the head coach at Georgia Southern, Caldwell had 12 personal records broken in the final day of the CCSA Championships. Caldwell has had multiple conference swimmers and divers of the week, as well as seeing Elizabeth Chemey earn Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-District Honors.
In 2019, the Eagles finished fourth in the CCSA Championships hosted in Lynchburg, Va. Anna Moers advanced from the CCSA Championship and earned an invite to the CSCAA National Invitational, racing in four events over a three-day period. Moers advanced to one final heat and earned 13 points for the Eagles during those events.
Prior to her stint at Georgia Southern was a six-year run as an assistant coach at Rice University.
During her time at Rice, the Owls captured two Conference USA titles, as well as the 2014 CSCAA (Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America) Invitational Championships. Individually, Rice swimmers captured 28 C-USA meet titles in six seasons and the school qualified swimmers for seven different NCAA Championship events in those seasons.
Caldwell was also the recipient of the prestigious Jean Freeman Scholarship from the CSCAA in 2018, given annually to assistant coaches whose exceptional contributions have brought recognition to their college or university.
Prior to joining Rice, Caldwell served as a volunteer assistant coach at Georgia Tech for one season, while also coaching for the Dynamo Swim Club in Atlanta. A four-year letterwinner at Youngstown State, Caldwell received her bachelor's degree in 2006 and was recently named a Bitonte College of Health and Human Services Distinguished Alumni. She earned her master's degree from James Madison University in 2008.
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A native of Martins Ferry, Ohio, Caldwell is a 2001 graduate of Martins Ferry High School. She is a certified member of the American Swim Coaches Association (Level II) and a member of United States Swimming.
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Caldwell and her husband Beau have one daughter, Ella.
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