Antanas Kavaliauskas is an assistant coach for the Wake Forest men's basketball program in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He joined the staff in June 2020 as director of player development and was promoted to assistant coach in the summer of 2023. Across his first five seasons on the staff, Wake Forest posted 104 overall wins, 54 ACC regular-season wins and 74 home victories, one of the best home totals in the country over that span. The Demon Deacons recorded 13 ACC wins in both 2021-22 and 2024-25, tying the top single-season conference mark in school history. In 2024-25, Wake Forest won 21 games, earned the first double bye in program history at the ACC Tournament and finished with its best regular-season placing since 2008-09. That team also matched the school record for ACC road wins with six and became the only ACC team to sweep the West Coast trip to Stanford and Cal. In 2025-26, Wake Forest won 18 games, including two postseason contests, and received a No. 1 seed in the NIT, while Juke Harris and Myles Colvin collected major conference and national honors.
A native of Vilnius, Lithuania, Kavaliauskas came to the United States in 2003 to play at Barton Community College in Kansas, where he earned an associate degree before transferring to Texas A&M. He completed his college career with the Aggies, reaching the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2007 and earning a bachelor's degree in agriculture. After graduation, he spent 12 years playing professionally in the Euroleague, including his final four seasons in Lithuania. His international career included service with the Lithuanian national team, gold medals at the 2005 U21 World Championships in Argentina and the 2007 Universiade in Thailand, Olympic appearances in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and a silver medal at the 2015 European Championship. During his club career, he won seven LKL or LBL titles, was twice named LKL MVP and helped BC Zalgiris Kaunas finish third in the Euroleague in 2018. He and his wife, Amanda, have a daughter, Alayna, and a son, Aaron.
