"cares about academics and players personally "

"interesting coach but very nice to his players "

"kind and cared a lot about her players and very respectful"

"she is very honest and you know where you stand because there are two separate teams within the roster (one which plays and one which doesn't). however, kind of strange how she tries to treat the girls as both friends and players, which makes it difficult for her to be treated with respect because you can't be both. also very aggressive during games and speaks down to you, but that is a testament to the culture"

"Plays favorites and struggles to balance between social life and being a professional. "

"Karen is very passionate. She cares a lot about field hockey and winning and if you aren't doing a good job she will let you know, but it is to help grow you as a player."

"Great coach and even better person"

"Erin is one of the best coaches out there. She started her career as a walk on at North Carolina so she found rowing as a second sport after soccer. Erin genuinely cares about cultivating a team culture that is elite, supportive, and bought into from the top all the way down. She is an excellent leader, and genuinely cares about her athletes as people. We oftentimes have office hours that have nothing to do with rowing. She will give it to you straight- which I very much appreciate, and has a strong vision of what needs to happen to get UNC to be a nationally relevant school. She always pushes the team and it’s easy to follow her, great on the water coach, will work with any kid on the team not just the 1v and goes out with the lower boats sometimes to make sure she has eyes on everyone. Very flexible, no bs type of lady. She’s awesome and I would choose to be on a team with her over and over again. She also works very very hard with recruiting to make sure the right people are coming in. "

"I’ve never had a coach this deep in my personal life but then barely actually coach me or help me get better. Like, he’s mad invasive, always in people’s business, talks way too much, super unprofessional. But yeah, he knows wrestling, I’ll give him that. Any kid I’ve seen try to leave the program, he goes out of his way to trash them and basically burn that bridge completely. It’s weird. He wants to be a head coach so bad, but honestly, the way he acts is gonna block that every time. He’s always stirring stuff up with the coaching staff too. My group watched it happen twice now. He’ll do whatever he can to make the head coach look bad. It just makes everything tense and awkward in the room. And the way he handles athletes is off. It feels like he’s developing guys just so he can say their success is because of him, not because he actually cares about their future. Like, he’ll literally train someone else to beat you, then be in your corner hyping you up like none of that just happened, calling you “his guy.” It’s fake and everyone can see it after your around him for a while. "

"I think that when he first got to UNC he had good intentions, but the man is very unorganized and unfortunately here was a rumor that he embezzled funds from one of our non-profit organizations. He was "chill" but I think a lot of athletes struggled to have a genuine relationship with him. He was transactional. Known for sweeping things under the rug. His wife is overly involved in everything he does. "

"Not much to say positively about this coach. He creates a toxic environment. He only cares about imagine. He is only willing to work with his fastest swimmers the rest he couldn’t care less about. He recruits you then abandons you. Not willing to help you get better or faster. His communication skills are very lacking as well. It’s too bad such a great academic school has this type of swim coach. He needs to do better. I doubt he will. "

"Great coach, we haven't had any games yet with him but the team has high hopes"

"What is going on. The girlfriend is a huge distraction "

"Over my 2 years at unc he was not a favorite for me or the team. me and a bunch of other guys did not like him at all. At times he was alright but it was normally the opposite. Out of all of our coaches definitely the worst "

"Our experience on UNC’s swimming and diving teams was disturbing. We felt we had gained a higher status than non-athletic regular people, or as we referred to them — NARPs. Despite this “status,” we often felt worthless outside our dedicated purpose to compete. Eventually, our struggle with mental health didn't matter, nor did any diseases, injuries or anything else really. No matter what, we were going to practice in the morning. Between 2020 and 2022, chlorine singed swimmers’ eyebrows, hair and skin for months at a time. During those times, many athletes complained. Since the pool would have to be closed for a week to fix it, our performance took primary concern over our health. Issues like this unsettled us. But leaving didn't seem possible. Athletes seek approval from coaches and quitting was looked down on by everyone involved. So we didn't say anything when we were injured or struggling. We sucked it up and went to 6 a.m. practice. We lost our eyebrows. We avoided hot showers because our skin burned. We practiced over the NCAA’s 20 hours of training per week limit, consistently dedicating well over 22 hours to the sport. Even if we felt nothing, struggled mentally, were suicidal - it did not matter because we thought it made us special. We were told that it made us special, that we were going above and beyond dedicating ourselves to a cause. No, we were brainwashed. And now, years into retirement, we lay in bed wide awake wondering why the hell we bought into a program that jeopardized our health. As ex-swimmers of the UNC swimming and diving teams, we want to tell other athletes. You are more important than your performance. If you are suffering as a result of your relationship with your program, something needs to change. From our point of view, the University’s athletic revenue machine mandated that programs had to meet high expectations, especially those that didn’t make a lot of money. Oftentimes, we witnessed those who failed to perform be ignored and stonewalled. Similarly, we knew key point scorers who were denied legitimate claims of injury and illness to maximize training time. The NCAA should classify these behaviors as abuse. They stretch the “splendors” of collegiate athletics into a nearly unattainable goal. The NCAA says its core mission is to “provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being”. But the current dynamic risks the safety of everyone involved. If this win-at-all-costs attitude isn’t reversed, we will witness the complete degradation of the meaning of sport at UNC. The exploitation of athletes, who put their bodies and minds on the line to be part of what they are taught makes them important, is unacceptable."

"Not an easy person to communicate with however is still a pretty decent coach"

"I don't think he has the emotional maturity needed to be a head coach, much less a good or great head coach. In my opinion, a good head coach leads by bringing out the best in people. They highlight strengths (athletic, interpersonal, academic, etc.) and promote growth in areas that can be developed. Good head coaches are also very self-aware. They are aware of their own strengths and build a team around them round out weaknesses. IMO- all of this = resilient program. I did not experience any of this under Mark's lead. It was unfortunate, because I thought SO highly of him and wanted to believe he was this wonderful, well rounded coach who cared and wanted to build something great. Mark seemed to 1. highly favor people who could score a lot of points and do exactly what he said at all times without question and 2. have no tolerance for anything else. You were a thorn in his side and his vision, and any other qualities about you did not matter. You will get pushed out, ignored, under-coached and over-punished. 3. Arguably worse, he only seems to hire people who think exactly like him and fire the rest if they haven't already been pushed out. This is all the making of a fear-driven, authoritarian program. That will not lead to program success nor will it help athletes succeed in any part of their life. Please don't waste a special time of your life dedicated to a program headed by someone who needs to grow up. I wish I didn't. "

"Awesome coach who has had experience as an elite-level infielder. Does a great job with the video and analytics at Texas A&M."

"My time as a swimmer for UNC-Chapel Hill was a constant struggle in terms of trying to connect with the staff that I had to work with. Being on A relay and leading by example in the pool and weight room brought me to believe that I would be looked at as a great role model for others in the program, I could not have been more wrong. Mark is the type of person where if you don't say and do exactly what he wants, then you are no use to him. He had a meeting with the non-NCAA swimmers stating how his job is to get top three at ACCs and the top ten at NCAAs. This meeting was held at 6 a.m. during the third week of mandatory morning practice after the conference in which he made it clear how little value this group fo athletes had when compared to his NCAA group. He flaunts a women team that is led by a single diver and is helped by fifth years and transfers. On the men's side it is hardly staying afloat thanks to international students (and the good ones, not ones that are taking up nearly full scholarships and can not make a conference team). He constantly emphasizes how the team needs to be more of a family while his actions go in the completely opposite direction as he makes athletes turn on each other and has his favorites that will lie straight to the face of their teammates to stay on good terms with Mark. He is an extremely unfair coach in the sense that if you are sick and injured you are no use to him. I have seen athletes who are on the verge of medical retirement be screamed at for extended periods of time for not being healthy enough and love to use the transfer portal as a way to get rid of athletes that are not improving. Mark is getting bullied in the ACC by every other head coach and going into the 2024 season will only get worse as Cal and Stanford are going to be joining. He should be removed as head coach of the program if the AD wants to see swimming and diving return to the Frank Comfort glory days otherwise it will be a long time before any improvement is shown by the Tar Heels in the water. "

"Mark Gangloff bullies the athletes to the point of where they are ready to quit. Mark definitely is not fit to be a coach. On top of it he lies with a strait face!"

"If you want a coach that treat individuals like statistics then Mark is your guy. H does not recognize his slower swimmers as representatives of the team and will be quick to blame poor performances on the attitude of his swimmers—not his coaching or planning. He’s rude, disrespectful, and unable to communicate or lead a group of college swimmers. He’ll make it obvious that he is not fond of certain swimmers, will treat them differently/awkwardly, and will try to make swimmers quit before throwing them away. Loves his transfer portal threats, so be careful if start caring too much about school and slightly losing focus on swimming. Swimming is his life, if it’s not yours then go somewhere else. Mark could also care less about the mental health of some of his swimmers. UNC athletics loves outliers and will easily defend mark with them—outliers are either good and suddenly represent the team or the outlier is bad and affects the majority of the team. He has no consciousness of balance or the results of his actions. . "

"Terrible Coach Unfit for Training"

"No communication skills at all. Make very hard for Swimmer’s get motivated and keep liking the sport of swimming. Doesn’t understand how to talk to team members making swimmers feeling like they are not worth. Disrespectful. Absolutely doesn’t care about team members in or out of the pool. Pick favorites and only give attention and training to those swimmers. Shouldn’t be coaching a high level swimming team as UNC Chapel Hill. Very unfortunate. "

"Sadly I could not find but one tag to describe him. He’s, in my opinion, a terrible coach! Poor coaching style which leads to poor team culture. "

"Carlos is a great coach, an excellent recruiter and an even better person. Not many coaches could continue a program the way he has after a coach like Elmar Bolowich did what he did at UNC"