Men's Gymnastics
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Jordan Gaarenstroom is entering his seventh year as an assistant coach for the Wolverines for the 2026 season. Before he was appointed assistant coach, Gaarenstroom was a member of
the Michigan team squad from 2010 to 2014, during which time he helped the Wolverines win the Big Ten and NCAA Team titles in 2013 and 2014.
A mainstay on the still rings, he competed on multiple events at the Championship level during his four years. After graduation, Gaarenstroom served as a boy's team coach at SCATS
Gymnastics in Huntington Beach, Calif., home to several Michigan Wolverines, US National Team Members, and Olympians.
Since his appointment at Michigan in the fall of 2019, Gaarenstroom has helped two head coaches secure the program’s first four-peat Big Ten Conference Team Titles since the 1960s. He has also assisted in five consecutive podium finishes on the national stage, including the national title in 2025.
He has directly coached athletes with All-America honors and two national champions: Paul Juda (2022 - all around and vault; 2024 - floor; 2025 - parallel bars) and Fred Richard (2023 - all
around, parallel bars, and high bar; 2025 - all around). He also guided current National Team member Crew Bold, a two-time NCAA All-American in 2024, to the high bar title at 2024’s Big
Ten Championships.
Outside of the NCAA program, Gaarenstroom is a current United States Senior National Team Coach. He traveled internationally with Juda to Cairo, Egypt in 2022, where he competed as an individual and secured silver medal finishes on the floor exercise and high bar. He also accompanied Richard at the 2023 DTB Pokal Team Challenge in Frankfurt, Germany, where Team USA secured the first team gold medal on the international stage in nearly a decade. He ended the 2023 season by assisting National Team Member Cameron Bock at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, where Team USA secured a team gold medal for the first time since 2015.
Gaarenstroom was tabbed as a Team USA coach at the 2024 Paris Olympics after Juda and Richard were named to the Olympic roster. Team USA earned bronze, the first medal for the team in 16 years. Juda and Richard also competed in the all-around finals, with Juda placing 14th and Richard placing 15th.
