Russ Kieselhorst is the assistant general manager for the Wake Forest football program in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and entered his seventh season on the staff in 2025. He joined Wake Forest in 2019 as a recruiting assistant, then served as director of player personnel from 2020 to 2022 and senior director of player personnel from 2023 to 2024.
Before arriving at Wake Forest, Kieselhorst spent five seasons at Marshall. He started there in 2014 as a recruiting intern, became director of high school relations in 2015, and added the title of director of player personnel in 2017. At Marshall, he managed the recruiting office as the program produced top Conference USA recruiting classes, won a conference championship, and earned four bowl victories. Kieselhorst graduated from Wisconsin-Parkside in 2014 with a B.S. in sport management and is from Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
