Dan Kalupski - Associate Head Coach - Swimming Coaches

Dan Kalupski

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
dkalups@ncsu.edu
Phone:
(773) 318-5602

Dan Kalupski was promoted to lead assistant coach/recruiting coordinator prior to the 2024-25 season. Kalupski has played a vital role in recruiting since his arrival at NC State ahead of the 2017-18 season.

While at NC State, Kalupski has played a tremendous role in the development of the entire Wolfpack swimming and diving program. Starting in 2017 and continuing through the 2023 season, Kalupski’s efforts on the pool deck focused on the upper aerobic group. This included coaching All-Americans such as Anton Ipsen, Hannah Moore, Eric Knowles, Julia Poole, Kate Moore, Emma Muzzy, Ross Dant, Will Gallant, Noah Bowers and James Plage amongst numerous others.

Beginning in the summer of 2023, Kalupski shifted his focus to the middle-distance group. This resulted in successful campaigns for a number of Wolfpack swimmers highlighted by Kennedy Noble’s runner-up finish in the 200-meter backstroke at the NCAA Championships and Arsenio Bustos’ fourth place finish in the 200 IM. Kalupski also coached freshman Daniel Diehl to Freshman of the Year honors in the ACC.

During Kalupski’s time at NC State, the Pack men have won six of seven ACC Championship team titles and have finished no worse than eighth place at NCAAs, highlighted by fourth place finishes in 2017-18 and 2021-22. The men have also won nine individual/relay NCAA titles and set seven American records during his time with the Pack.

In that same time, the Pack women’s team took home the ACC Championship in 2019 while finishing a program best second at NCAAs in 2020-21. During that campaign the women’s team won five individual/relay titles after the women had not ever won a swimming NCAA title prior to that season.

Kalupski has also been honored by USA Swimming as a national team coach the past four seasons (beginning in 2019-20) because of his role in coaching NC State's athletes who were named to the USA Swimming National Team. These athletes include Eric Knowles, Ross Dant, James Plage, Will Gallant, Brooke Travis, Kennedy Noble and Daniel Diehl.

Dan Kalupski was promoted to assistant coach ahead of the 2019-20 season. He earned his title as assistant coach after spending the previous two seasons as a volunteer assistant with the Wolfpack's swimming and diving teams.

Prior to his time in Raleigh, Kalupski spent two years as the head assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During his time at MIT, the Engineers achieved 118 NCAA Division III All-America accolades and set 24 new school records. The women's team achieved its highest national finish in program history to date in 2017, placing fifth at the NCAA Championships.

Kalupski spent the 2014-15 season as an assistant coach for the men's swimming and diving team at DePauw University. While there, he developed and implemented a strength and conditioning and dry land program, in addition to running all aspects of social media for the team.

A native of Chicago, he completed his Masters of Science in Sports Management from Indiana State University in 2016. Kalupski completed his undergraduate work from UW-Stevens Point with a business degree and coaching minor. He was a four-year member of the university's swimming and diving team, serving as a captain during his senior season. Kalupski helped lead the team to its 14th-straight WIAC championship at the end of the Pointers' 2012-13 campaign.