Wolfe joined the Navy Women's Basketball staff in June of 2020 as the program's Strength and Conditioning Coach and Director of Player Development. A four-year letterwinner and team captain at the University of Virginia, Wolfe most recently served on staff at Old Dominion University.
“Kelsey is a tremendous addition to the Naval Academy family,” remarked Taylor. “Obtaining a great Strength and Conditioning Coach was the top priority for me when I took the job at Navy. Kelsey was the first call I made in that process as she was who I wanted to lead our player development efforts. She was a great player who truly understood the game at a high level and who had an incredible competitive spirit. She trained under Mike Curtis, UVA Men’s Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach, who is best strength coach in the country in my opinion. Her knowledge of sports performance combined with her understanding of the game will be instrumental in our player development process. The day Kelsey agreed to join us at Navy was an incredible win for our program and players. I am truly elated to add Kelsey to our NWB family.”
“I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the Navy Women's Basketball program,” said Wolfe. “I am honored to be able to work at the United States Naval Academy and be surrounded by incredible people and student-athletes. Coach Taylor is well respected in the basketball community and I want to thank him for giving me this opportunity. I can't wait to get started.”
An assistant director of sport performance at Old Dominion University for the past two years, Wolfe created and designed individualized training packages for the Monarchs’ women’s basketball, volleyball, swimming & diving and rowing programs. Specifics of her sport performance work, included working with student-athletes and staff in the area of nutrition and implementing prehab protocols prior to training sessions. Wolfe was also responsible for managing and overseeing strength and conditioning interns throughout her time in Norfolk.
In the three years prior to working at Old Dominion, Wolfe gained experience as a strength and conditioning graduate assistant at the University of Virginia, a performance coach at ADAPT Youth Sports Performance in Charlottesville, Virginia and as an strength and conditioning intern at the University of Maryland. At Virginia and Maryland, she worked specifically with creating training programs and assisting in their implementation for the Cavaliers’ men’s and women’s basketball and the Terrapins’ women’s basketball teams.
Prior to joining the realm of sport performance and strength and conditioning, Wolfe was a four-year student-athlete at the University of Virginia. Competing in 113 games during time as a guard with the Cavaliers, Wolfe capped her career by being named the team captain as a senior, as well as earning the Christine J. Toretti Women’s Basketball Scholarship for the 2013-14 season. As the team captain, Wolfe was the only Cavalier to start every game that season, while leading the ACC in free throw percentage (89.5%). Additionally, she led Virginia with 88 assists as a senior. For her career, Wolfe scored 758 points with 190 assists and 110 steals. She played for Taylor at UVA as a freshman during the 2010-11 season.
Wolfe is a native of Germantown, Maryland and was a four-time Team MVP at Seneca Valley High School. She was the Washington Post’s 2010 All-Metro Player of the Year and led her squad to the Maryland 3A State Championship. She’s Seneca Valley’s all-time leading scorer with 1,809 points. Wolfe graduated from the University of Virginia in 2014 with a degree in Kinesiology before later attaining her Master’s in Exercise Physiology from Virginia in 2018.
