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Cary Kolat, former two-time NCAA champion and member of the 2000 United States Olympic Wrestling Team, is in his second year as an assistant coach at North Carolina.
Kolat also serves as the director and head coach of the North Carolina Olympic Training Center based in Chapel Hill.
Kolat was on the UNC staff for two years in 2002-03 and has worked on collegiate staffs at Lehigh, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Lock Haven, his alma mater. In the previous two years Kolat was directing a private wrestling club in Maryland and operating Kolat.com, a wrestling training site.
Kolat won NCAA championships in 1995 and 1996 at Lock Haven and finished second as a freshman at Penn State in 1993. He finished his collegiate career with a 111-7 record. He went 137-0 in high school, winning four Pennsylvania state titles. In addition to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Kolat competed for the United States in a dozen other international competitions.
In the summer of 2011, Kolat made a return to the mat in a competitive fashion and was a finalist at the U.S. Open and as a result will take part in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.
Kolat last competed in 2008 before his impressive run at the U.S. Open.
