Abe Woldeslassie serves as Assistant Coach / General Manager for University of Northern Iowa's Men's Basketball program in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Woldeslassie joined the Panther staff as assistant coach and general manager in April 2026 with 16 years of experience across the Division I and Division III landscape. The Minneapolis, Minnesota native spent the 2025-26 season as an assistant coach at the University of Denver, where the Pioneers tied for fourth in the Summit League standings with their best finish in the last eight years.
Prior to his stint at Denver, Woldeslassie spent seven seasons as the head coach at his alma mater, Division III Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Taking over a program that had won just 35 games in the previous ten seasons prior to his arrival, Woldeslassie nearly doubled that total, recording 66 wins. The Scots became the first six-seed to reach the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Tournament title game in league history in 2022 with a 15-win season with Woldeslassie earning D3Hoops.com Region 9 Coach of the Year honors. A year later, Macalester reached the 15-win milestone once again and placed fourth in the conference standings for the program’s best league finish since 2003-04.
