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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 in
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