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Thom Glielmi enters his sixth season as head coach of the Stanford Men's Gymnastics team. He was recently named the NCAA West Region Head Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year. During his short time in the collegiate coaching ranks, Glielmi has coached ten NCAA Champions and 31 All-Americans. Last season Glielmi lead the Cardinal to its second consecutive third-place finish at the NCAA Championships. In 2006 the Stanford men set a new school record by bringing home the most All-Americans in one season. Prior to taking over the men's team at Stanford, Glielmi spent three seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota and guided the team to a No. 7 finish during his last season in Minnesota. While with the Golden Gophers, Glielmi was named the 2000-01 NCAA Assistant Coach of the Year after coaching the 2001 NCAA pommel horse and floor exercise champion. Glielmi has produced NCAA national champions on vault, rings, pommel horse, floor exercise and horizontal bar. Glielmi is involved on many levels of the sport from the grass roots level to the international elite. He is an FIG Brevet judge, an Executive Board Member to USA-Gymnastics (the governing body of gymnastics), and is also on the NCAA Rules Committee for the men's program. A USA Senior National Team Coach for ten years, Glielmi was a member of the 2006 and 2007 USA World Championships Team Coaching Staff. As head coach of the 2003 USA Pan American team he lead them to a bronze medal-winning competition. Additionally, he was part of the 2000 USA Olympic Team coaching staff. Prior to coaching at Minnesota, he was the owner and head men's gymnastics coach at the International Sports Center in Matthews, N.C. A 1988 graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Glielmi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. | |||||||||||||
