09/17/2022
CDS Announces New Head Boys Basketball Coach
Carolina Day School’s Director of Athletics Tauni Butterfield recently announced the appointment of Paul Capodanno as the Wildcats new head coach for the varsity boys basketball team. "Coach Cap," as he is known, joined Carolina Day for the 2022-2023 school year and also oversees the physical education program for the Lower School grades at CDS.
Capodanno brings extensive basketball coaching experience to the school. Raised by a family of Hall of Fame coaches and educators, he played college basketball at the Division III level, and he has coached boys basketball at the varsity and JV levels at independent schools such as Christ School (Asheville, NC), Woodlawn School (Davidson, NC), Cape Fear Academy (Wilmington, NC), and The John Carroll School (Bel Air, MD). He has experience coaching AAU basketball teams, and he led teams that competed at the national level. Over the years, he has helped many of his players move on to compete at the collegiate level in Divisions I, II, and III.