John Calipari’s wife has spoken.
Ellen Calipari, the wife of the former head coach of Kentucky basketball and current head coach of Arkansas basketball posted a three-minute video on Instagram with the caption, “Thank you Kentucky!”
“If you think this is easy to do you’d be wrong. … It’s been a great pleasure to be here, we’ve been here 15 years — which is very hard to believe. … We’ll have a lot of very fond memories of being in Lexington. It’s been an honor to be a part of the university and I hope we leave behind a lasting legacy. … We will miss a lot of things about Lexington and the University of Kentucky and we just both want to give our thanks.
… You’ve been very good to me and I appreciate that and it couldn’t have been a better place to be for 15 years. … It’s been my honor to be ‘Mrs. Cal’ and make brownies for a lot of these guys who have come through here. Thank you for everything you’ve done for myself and my family… and my roommate [shrugs]. Thank you.”
Mrs. Calipari was a fan favorite among Big Blue Nation while her husband coached the team from 2009 to 2024.
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The Caliparis have been married since 1986.
Although not official yet, it has been reported that Calipari will soon agree to become the next head basketball coach at the University of Arkansas as a deal is “imminent.”
While with Kentucky, Calipari won a National Championship in 2012 and made four Final Four appearances.
Calipari also has Final Four appearances with the University of Massachusetts in 1996 and the University of Memphis in 2008, both of which have since been vacated.
