ANTANAS KAVALIAUSKAS | ASSISTANT COACH

Antanas Kavaliauskas joins the Wake Forest basketball staff after an extensive professional career in Europe. A native of Vilnius, Lithuania, he entered the United States in the fall of 2003 to play basketball at Barton Community College in Kansas. After successful years on the court and in the classroom, Kavaliauskas earned his associate degree and transferred to Texas A&M where he finished his collegiate career with an NCAA Sweet 16 appearance in 2007 and a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture.
 
Soon after graduating, Kavaliauskas played professionally in the Euroleague for 12 years, the last four of which were played in his home country of Lithuania. He also played for the Lithuanian National Team during the summers of 2005 and 2007. His team won gold at the U21 World Championships in Argentina in 2005 and won gold again at the Universiade in Thailand in 2007. He was called up to the Lithuanian National Team in 2012 for the Summer Olympics in London and represented Lithuania at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
 
During his playing career, Kavaliauskas was an LKL or LBL champion seven times and earned LKL MVP status twice. In 2015, he won a silver medal playing for the Lithuanian national team in the European Championship. Three years later in 2018, BC Zalgiris Kaunas finished third in the Euroleague.

He and his wife, Amanda, have one daughter, Alayna, and one son, Aaron.