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Abraham Zerai Woldeslassie (born October 3, 1985) is an American basketball coach, currently the head men's basketball coach at Macalester college. He previously served as an assistant coach at Siena College and Bowdoin College. In addition, he served as director of basketball operations at Dartmouth College and Davidson College.

Coaching Career
Woldeslassie began his career as a coach at Impact Basketball Academy, a service that provides coaching to professionals, high school, and college players. He was hired from Impact Basketball academy to be an assistant at Bowdoin College. After a two year stint at Bowdoin he was hired to be head of basketball operations at Dartmouth college. He eventually took that role at Davidson college.

After his four season stint in basketball operations, Woldeslassie made his return to coaching by taking a job as an assistant coach at Siena college under head coach Jimmy Patsos. Woldeslassie had success in recruiting, landing guard Jordan Horn from Tartan High School in Minnesota. . After one season at Siena, Woldeslassie was let go from Siena College when the whole coaching staff was fired. After exploring other Division 1 coaching opportunities, Woldeslassie decided to accept the head coaching job at his alma mater, Macalester College, where he was an all conference player. In his first season at Macalester, Woldeslassie managed to increase the win total from three wins the year before to seven wins.