our coaches
braden holloway
braden holloway
braden holloway
NC State Swimming/Diving Head Coach. 2024 Team USA Olympic Assistant Coach.
2022 Team USA World Championships head coach and 2023 Team USA World Championships assistant coach. Also led the 2019 Team USA World University Games. Current US National Team staff member. 9x ACC Men's Coach of the Year. 2x ACC Women's Coach of the Year. Coached 17 Olympians and 1 Olympic Gold Medalist.
mark bernardino
braden holloway
braden holloway
NC State Swimming/Diving Associate Head Coach. Previous assistant coach at Univ. of South Carolina and long time head coach of UVA. 2009 and 2011 Team USA World University Games head coach. 2011 Team USA Pan-American Games assistant coach. Current US National Team staff member. Inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2018.
kevin happ
braden holloway
ethan cooke
NC State Swimming/Diving Director of Operations since 2017. In 2022 he became the Director of Operations for Wolfpack Elite. Kevin swam for Indiana University then went on to coach at SwimMAC in Charlotte 2011-2015 then to Princeton University as Assistant Director of Aquatics.
ethan cooke
joao mescolote
ethan cooke
Wolfpack Elite coach leading clinics and private lessons. Previous Duke University assistant coach for swimming/diving. Also spent 4 years as an assistant coach at Bucknell University where the team set a combined 33 school records in the pool.
Cooke also spent two years as an assistant coach at Division III Wesleyan University during which the team had 2 NCAA qualifiers and set over 30 school records.
joao mescolote
joao mescolote
joao mescolote
A former member of the Brazilian Swimming Junior National Team, Joao represented and held school records for the LSU Tigers from 2014-18. As an athlete, Joao has qualified for 4 Brazilian Olympic Trials and was part of a winning Junior South American Games relay. As a coach, Joao has led the CUI Eagles into a PCSC Title in 2022, as well as helped the Ball State Cardinals rewrite their entire Men's school record board from 2022-24.
MICHAEL BARIC
joao mescolote
joao mescolote
NC State Swimming/Diving assistant coach. Michael served as an assistant coach for UNC-Chapel Hill from 2017-22. Prior to his stint at UNC, Michael volunteered with the swimming and diving programs at the University of Florida while pursuing a master of science degree in sport management. Michael was a standout swimmer for UNCW from 2010-14 and trained with Wolfpack Elite as a post-graduate.
stefanie wendleschaefer
stefanie wendleschaefer
stefanie wendleschaefer
NC State Swimming/Diving assistant coach. Previous assistant coach at Grove City College and Washington & Jefferson College.
dan kesler
stefanie wendleschaefer
stefanie wendleschaefer
Associate Head Coach for NC State Swimming/Diving., where Dan was a stand-out distance swimmer back in the day. Most recently spent 2 years as Head Coach for Utah Tech where he was named WAC Coach of the Year. Also spent 2 years as an assistant coach at Florida State University and 7 years as an assistant at Arizona State University.
dan kalupski
stefanie wendleschaefer
dan kalupski
NC State Swimming/Diving assistant coach since 2017. Previous assistant coach at MIT and DePauw University. Current US National Team staff member. Dan specializes in coaching distance.