Ben Darmstadt - Wrestling Coach - University of North Carolina Athletics

Ben Darmstadt

Title:
Assistant Coach

Ben Darmstadt joined the Carolina Wrestling coaching staff in October 2023.

During the 2024-25 campaign, Carolina clinched a share of the ACC regular season title, the 19th in program history and the first since the 2018-19 campaign. The Tar Heels qualified eight for the NCAA Championships in Philadelphia, the most since 2021. At the national tournament, Lachlan McNeil earned All-America honors with a fifth-place finish at 149 pounds, becoming the sixth Tar Heel with three-or-more All-America finishes.

In his first season in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels had their most dual victories since 2019-20. Individually, five Carolina wrestlers earned berths to the NCAA Championships in Kansas City, with Lachlan McNeil collecting All-America honors for the second-straight season.

A former wrestler under head coach Rob Koll at Cornell, Darmstadt was a two-time All-America honoree during his time with the Big Red. A two-time EIWA Champion and two-time All-Ivy League First-Time honoree, the Elyria, Ohio native graduated from Cornell with his bachelor's degree in marketing.

Prior to arriving in Chapel Hill, Darmstadt was a coach at the Cardinal Wrestling Club regional training center.