Andrea Caligiana joined the California in August 2024 after serving for four seasons on the Middle Tennessee State coaching staff.
In the 2023-24 season, Caligiana helped the Blue Raiders earn their fifth consecutive Conference USA championship and subsequently was named the ITA Ohio Valley Assistant Coach of the Year. MTSU defeated six ranked programs and earned a season-best No. 26 ITA team ranking. The duo of Leo Raquin and Ondrej Horak reached its highest doubles ranking of No. 26 and Raquin reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 18. Raquin won CUSA Player and Newcomer of the Year and Jakub Kroslak was named CUSA Freshman of the Year. Caligiana assisted Raquin and Horak in qualifying for the NCAA Doubles Championship and helped Raquin reach the NCAA Singles Championship as well. MTSU completed the season with a 21-10 record and advanced to the NCAA round of 32 for the third consecutive season.
In the 2022-23 season, Caligiana assisted the Blue Raiders in winning their fourth straight Conference USA championship and becoming the second school in CUSA history to earn a four-peat. The team's highest ranking was at No. 21. MTSU picked up two big wins against No. 19 Duke and No. 19 Northwestern, which marked the first wins over both teams in program history. Ondrej Horak was named CUSA Freshman of the Year and Stijn Slump was tabbed CUSA Player of the Year. Caligiana helped bring in another big recruiting class for the following season including four transfers and a freshman. He assisted Slump in qualifying for the NCAA Singles Championship. MTSU ended the season with a 22-8 record and reached the NCAA second round for the second straight season.
In the 2021-22 season, Caligiana helped the MTSU program capture a three-peat in the Conference USA Championship and become the third school in CUSA history to reach that feat. The program finished the regular season with a 27-4 record, which were the most wins and the best record in program history. He helped the Raiders earn a ranking of No. 15 during the season, which was the highest MTSU team ranking in over 40 years. Caligiana assisted the development of six ITA individually ranked Raiders during the season, including at No.21 and No. 23 ITA doubles and No. 30, No. 38, No.101 and No.106 in singles. All six starters were named CUSA Players of the Week for the first time in program history. Francisco Rocha and Oskar Brostrom competed in NCAA doubles in 2022. MTSU finished the 2022 season as a second-round NCAA team and ended the year ranked No. 20. Caligiana helped the Blue Raiders achieve the No. 3 mid-major recruiting class, with the signing of Ondrej Horak, Shu Matsuoka and Marcel Kamrowski; that class landed them at No. 23 nationally.
Caligiana joined the MTSU coaching staff under head coach Jimmy Borendame in fall 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 a ranking of No. 34. Francisco Rocha was able to compete in the 2021 NCAA singles tournament. One of Caligiana’s main duties was recruiting, and in his first season, he helped MTSU secure the No. 2 mid-major class and the No. 33 class nationally, according to
tennisrecruting.net.
Before his time at Middle Tennessee State, Caligiana was an assistant coach at New Mexico in spring 2020.
During fall 2019, Caligiana was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Wichita State, where he worked with the All-America doubles team of Murkel Dellien and Marius Frosa.
A Perugia, Italy, native, Caligiana finished his senior year at Wichita State in 2019. In his three seasons with the Shockers, he collected 45 wins and played on the ITF futures tour.
Caligiana graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sport management, earning summa cum laude.
