This week’s Fab Five features: (1) Quentin Cobbs-Butler, St. Thomas receiver and national standout; (2) Minneapolis North’s Tavin Stoll and Anthony Deline, leaders of the Polars’ unbeaten regular season; (3) James Ware, back at Hopkins as an assistant; (4) Lynx spark plug Natisha Hiedeman; and (5) Abe Woldeslassie, now an assistant with Denver men’s basketball.
Abe Woldeslassie
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Woldeslassie leaves Mac for Denver
Abe Woldeslassie, a Macalester College grad who came back to coach the men’s basketball team for seven seasons, has resigned to take an assistant coaching position at Division I University of Denver.
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The most diverse college volleyball team in Minnesota
The 2024 Macalester College volleyball team is the most diverse college volleyball team in Minnesota, with seven Black players and student manager Adonia Anene, and the team is proud to be part of the HBCU-like diversity.
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Nigerian new to U.S. hoops proves strong rebounder
Armando Akapo-Nwagbo is taking advantage of his opportunity to start in the Macalester men’s basketball team.
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Woldeslassie likes the Scots chances this year
During our sit-down interview, Abe Woldeslassie was very optimistic about his squad going into his 2023-24 season.
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Black coaches face-off in Macalester-Minnesota exhibition game
Ben Johnson and Abe Woldeslassie both have successfully forged parallel careers: Johnson played at De La Salle and Woldeslassie at St. Thomas Academy.
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Enjoying games the hoop snobs miss
‘There is so much great basketball in the Cities. Go see a game.’
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MAC men’s hoops improving every year under Woldeslassie
Macalester is fresh off one of the school’s historic runs, the first sixth seed in league history that finished as MIAC runners-up last season, finishing 15-13 overall.
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Eritrea Basketball Showcase hopes to improve the country’s image
‘Basketball has always been a very gravitating opportunity for kids to come together and bring communities together.’
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Excited Scots coach invites fans to come share the fun
Abe Woldeslassie in his fourth season at Macalester is the MIAC’s longest-tenured Black men’s head basketball coach since 2018.
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Macalester basketball team has inter-squad scrimmage
Woldeslassie, had an inter-squad scrimmage on October 30, 2021, at the school’s gymnasium.
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Intensity of college play a top challenge for Mac men’s hoops
The first year of a coach’s program is always the hardest. “I think we can have a top-25 Division III men’s basketball program” at Macalester, a top-25 liberal arts college, Abe Woldeslassie, the Scots’ first-year head coach, has pledged.