Samuel Mikulak

Sam Mikulak
Mikulak at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Samuel Anthony Mikulak
Country represented	United States
Born	(1992-10-13) October 13, 1992 (age 24) Corona del Mar, California
Hometown	Newport Coast, California
Residence	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Height	5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team	2007–present (USA)
Gym	SCATS
College team	University of Michigan (2011–14)
Head coach(es)	Vitaliy Marinitch
Former coach(es)	Kurt Golder
Medal record Artistic gymnastics Representing  United States World Championships 2014 Nanning Team Pan American Games 2015 Toronto Team 2015 Toronto All-around 2015 Toronto Floor exercise 2015 Toronto Parallel bars

Samuel Anthony "Sam" Mikulak (born October 13, 1992) is an American artistic gymnast. He is a seven-time NCAA champion in gymnastics, winning the all-around and several other titles in 2011, 2013 and 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship and was a member of the U.S. men's gymnastics team that competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and a member of the U.S. men's gymnastics team that competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Mikulak was born in Corona del Mar, California, and attended Corona del Mar High School. His parents both competed in gymnastics at the University of California, Berkeley, and started Sam in gymnastics at age two. His father, Stephen Mikulak, is an orthopedic surgeon. Mikulak was a member of the Junior National team from 2007 to 2010. He won the all-around championship as well as event championships in the floor exercise and vault at the 2010 Junior Olympic Nationals.

Mikulak enrolled at the University of Michigan where he was a member of the Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team. As a freshman in 2010–2011, he won the individual all-around title at the 2011 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship with a career-high score of 90.75. As a sophomore in 2012, he won the Big Ten Conference championship in the high bar with a 15.45 score and pommel horse with a 15.55 score. He finished third in the all-around competition at the 2012 NCAA championship. Mikulak was the first American member of the University of Michigan men's artistic gymnastics team to qualify for the Olympic games. Mikulak won the all-around, parallel bars and high bar competitions at the 2013 NCAA championship. He won the all-around and parallel bars competitions at the 2014 NCAA championship. Mikulak was an anchor on the University of Michigan men's team which captured the NCAA team championship in 2013 and 2014. He was named undergraduate assistant coach for the University of Michigan men's team in August 2014.