Mike Brackmann

Biography

Mike Brackmann joined the Cornell gymnastics coaching staff in September 2021 as an assistant. In his first three seasons with the program, Big Red gymnasts have posted 16 additions to the school's all-time top 10 list and set a new record on floor (49.225) and beam (49.075). Cornell also made history in 2024 by setting a new program record team score of 195.025 against Centenary. Sydney Beers won the 2022 USAG national title in the all-around and a total of 19 All-America citations have landed with Big Red gymnasts at the meet. Brackmann joined the Big Red as an assistant after working at the club level for the past five years with Aerial Gymnastics Club in Downers Grove, Ill. He spent 2016-18 as an assistant boys' coach where he developed athletes for the collegiate level. In 2018 he made the jump from assistant to a primary event coach of Aerial's girls' team. At the helm of the girls' program, Brackmann dealt with day-to-day gym operations including scheduling and external communications. Brackmann is a 2015 graduate of University of Illinois at Chicago where he earned a bachelor's of arts in the teaching of history and was a four-year member of the Flames' men's gymnastics program. While competing for UIC, Brackmann was named a Scholastic All-American and specialized in the pommel horse, rings, and high bar.