Macalester head basketball coach Abe Woldeslassie is resigning after seven seasons spent leading his alma mater, the school announced Thursday.
Woldeslassie is taking an assistant coaching job at the University of Denver.
He leaves Macalester in a much better spot than he found it. When he took over the program, the Scots had won 35 games total over the previous 10 seasons.
Woldeslassie turned the Scots into a legitimate contender in the MIAC, leading the team to the conference tournament title game in 2022. The Scots won 15 games the following year, marking the first time in 40 years they’d posted winning records in consecutive campaigns.
“While we are saddened to see him go,” Macalester athletic director Donnie Brooks said in a release, “we’re incredibly proud of what he’s accomplished here and excited to see what lies ahead for him.”
Woldeslassie, who has previous experience as a Division I assistant coach, joins the bench of new Denver coach Tim Bergstraser, a St. Cloud commit who took the job at Denver after four seasons as the head coach at Minnesota State-Moorhead.
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