John Vincent Calipari is an American basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the head coach of the University of Kentucky men’s team, with whom he won the NCAA Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
Who is Ellen Calipari?
Calipari, who has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Italy, has been married to his wife Ellen since 1986. They have two daughters, Erin, a neuropharmacologist who played basketball at UMass, and Megan, a French pastry chef, and a son Brad, who played basketball at Kentucky for two seasons.
Brad graduated from Kentucky in May 2019 with two remaining seasons of college eligibility and chose to transfer to the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) to complete his college playing career.
After playing two seasons at UDM and receiving a master’s degree in 2021, Brad chose not to take advantage of the extra season of athletic eligibility offered to all NCAA basketball players in the wake of COVID-19 and joined the UK coaching staff as a graduate assistant. His second cousin is TJ Friedl, a baseball player.