Women's Water Polo
- Title:
- Assistant Athletic Director, Athletic Performance & Administration
M. Volleyball, W. Water Polo
- Alma Mater:
- UCLA, '93
Mike Linn is UCLA's Head Athletic Performance Coach. He oversees a team of 7 Assistant Athletic Performance Coaches and 2 Performance Dieticians. The Athletic Performance Team manages all aspects of the mental and physical development of 600+ Olympic sport athletes at UCLA.
Linn is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength Coaches Association, as well as a Level I weightlifting coach. A national speaker in his field, he is also a published author in the field of human performance.
Linn joined the Bruin program in 2007 after serving as the Vice President of Velocity Sports Performance. While at Velocity Sports Performance, he worked to develop training programs for its 63 franchise locations and over 20,000 athletes nationwide. In addition, Linn supervised the training and professional development for a network of over 700 coaches. Linn was also instrumental in launching several key initiatives with Velocity's national partners Gatorade, Nike and the National Strength and Conditioning Association during his tenure.
From 2005-2006, Linn served as the Director of the Velocity Sports Performance franchise in St. Louis, MO. While at the St. Louis location, he collaborated on the training, injury prevention and rehabilitation of over 500 area athletes. He also directed professional athlete development programs for numerous NFL, MLB, NHL and MLS athletes.
Linn's collegiate coaching experience includes a stint from 2002-2005 as the Director of Strength and Conditioning at St. Louis University. At SLU, he was responsible for all aspects of athletic performance for the over 350 student-athletes at the university that participated in 16 Division I sports. Linn also previously served as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at UCLA from 1999-2002. At UCLA he managed all areas of the strength and conditioning department for the entire student-athlete population.
Linn graduated from UCLA in 1993. While attending UCLA, he was a 3-year letterman on the football team. Linn is married to the former Karen Nelson, a UCLA gymnast who was a two-time All-American on vault and the 1994 Pac-10 Vault champion. They have two children, Kylie and Ryker.
