Gymnastics
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
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After coaching on the men’s gymnastics side for eight years, Mark Freeman begins his second year as an assistant coach for the UCLA women.
In his first year in Westwood, Freeman helped guide the Bruins to the Big Ten regular season and conference championship titles and to a second-place NCAA Championships finish. He coached the Bruin vault squad to a No. 7 national ranking and helped the floor squad record a No. 1 national ranking with season-highs of 49.800 twice. Freeman coached Brooklyn Moors to the NCAA floor exercise title and Moors and Chiles to Big Ten titles with perfect 10s.
Freeman served as an assistant coach for the four-time defending NCAA champion Stanford men’s gymnastics team from 2019-24. A four-time West Region Assistant Coach of the Year and a member of five National Coaching Staffs of the Year, Freeman coached two members of USA Gymnastics’ 2024 Olympic bronze-medal winning team (Brody Malone and Asher Hong) and one team member (Malone) and two alternates (Akash Modi and Brandon Briones) at the 2020 Olympics. Freeman produced a long list of All-Americans who totaled 76 All-American honors in his five-year tenure at Stanford. Prior to his time at Stanford, he was an assistant coach for the men’s team at the University of California from 2017-19. Freeman is the owner of SB Gymnastics and CEO and founder of Freeman Technique, a fitness and movement consultancy.
A member of Great Britain’s Senior National Team from 2001-04, Freeman competed at the World Championships in 2002 and 2003. As a Junior National Team member, he became the first-ever British competitors to win a gold medal in a major competition, taking the Junior European title on rings in 2002. Freeman went on to compete for the California Golden Bears from 2004-08, leading his team to three Top 5 NCAA finishes and one MPSF conference title. After earning his degree in Sociology in 2008, he continued his gymnastics journey by performing, touring and creating for Cirque du Soleil for five years.
