NC State Hires Josh Stanfield as Assistant Coach
NC State on Saturday introduced the hiring of Josh Stanfield as an assistant coach on the swimming and diving employees.
Stanfield spent two seasons with the lads’s crew at Notre Dame, serving to it to a program-best second-place end on the 2024 ACC Championships and guiding Chris Guiliano to qualification to the Paris Olympics. (The Combating Irish have been suspended from competitors final yr as a result of playing withing this system.)
“I’m actually grateful to Braden for this unimaginable alternative and for the nice and cozy welcome my household and I’ve obtained from Wolfpack Nation,” Stanfield mentioned in a college press launch. “NC State stands among the many elite packages within the nation, constantly competing on the highest ranges each nationally and internationally. I’m keen to start this journey with the student-athletes and coaches alike, to assist take this system to even higher heights, and to deliver unwavering ardour and power to the whole lot we do. Go Pack!”
Stanfield is conversant in the world, having spent 4 seasons as an assistant coach at Duke. The Blue Devils’ ladies’s crew matched their greatest ACC Championships end (fifth) in 2022 and completed twenty fourth at NCAAs. In addition they certified 10 swimmers to the cancelled 2020 NCAA Championships.
Stanfield swam at Southwestern College in Texas. The Huntsville, Texas, native graduated in 2011 with a bachelor’s diploma in kinesiology. He served as a volunteer assistant at his alma mater, whereas additionally teaching age-groupers at Nitro Swimming. He spent 5 seasons as an assistant coach and one as an affiliate head coach at Gardner Webb College.
“We’re proud to welcome Josh Stanfield— a coach who brings imaginative and prescient, ardour, and a relentless drive to assist us rise to the following stage,” NC State head coach Braden Holloway mentioned. “With a confirmed observe document of excellence, a ardour for creating athletes out and in of the pool, and a imaginative and prescient that aligns with our core values, Josh brings the power, expertise, and integrity wanted to assist us transfer into our subsequent chapter. We’re excited to welcome Josh, his spouse Kristin, and their son Hayden to Wolfpack Nation.”
