Mike Lorenzen joins the staff at Arizona State after spending five years as the Assistant Coach at Stanford University. During his time at Stanford, the team had a very successful run attending four NCAA Championships, being in the Super Six three years and culminated with a third place finish and National Champion on bars last year.
Prior to coaching at Stanford, Lorenzen worked as the Gymnastics program director at Woodward Camp in central Pennsylvania, the world's largest gymnastics and action sports training camp. Before working at Woodward, Lorenzen was head coach of the University of Iowa's women's team from 1999-2004. Within four years he took the program to Nationals and was ranked top 10 in the country. In his fifth year, the team was No. 1 in the conference. Lorenzen coached seven Big Ten individual champions and five NCAA All-Americans.
Lorenzen began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Yale from 1987 to 1989. He was an assistant at both Maryland and Rhode Island before being named head coach at Indiana University (Pa.) in 1995. From 1996 to 1999, Lorenzen was a Junior Olympic Coach at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy working with former Olympic Coach Mary Lee Tracy. In 1999, he was named USA Gymnastics regional coach of the year while the club was recognized at the top J.O. program in the country.
In addition to his 20 years of coaching experience, Lorenzen holds various educational accomplishments. He attended the University of Maryland receiving a B.A. in government and politics in 1986 before earning his master's in international relations from Yale in 1989. Lorenzen finished and was awarded his doctorate from the University of the Pacific last May.